askar ... wrote: > On 6/27/05, Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>askar ... wrote: >> >> >>>Hello! >>> >>>Is there anybody who knows how to make 3Com 3c905 100BaseTX >>>[Boomerang] work. I'm using gentoo 2005.0, gentoo-sources. In the >>>kernel there is no driver for it. >>>Help me. >>> >>>askar >>> >>> >>> >> >>I believe the module for that card is 3c59x and has to be compiled >>either as a module or in the kernel. You can test that by modprobing >>the module and see what happens. Once you've done that, follow the >>network setup as outlined in the Gentoo install guide. >> >>Cheers. > > Thanks, but modprobe 3c59x gave me errror: FATAL: Module 3c59x not found. > In kernel there is no option for 3c59x > > askar >
You don't have a module because you did CONFIG_VORTEX=y instead of CONFIG_VORTEX=m. If you had built the driver as a module then "modprobe 3c59x" would work. What about "dmesg | grep eth"? Did that turn up anything? Zac Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
