On Monday 11 February 2008, Simon Turner wrote: > Hi, > I'm having trouble installing gentoo on my old laptop... It says it > can't find the interface eth0. I believe it has to do with the fact I > have a pcmcia card with usb ports on which a usb2eth adapter is > plugged. > > On another system I use on that laptop, it usually tries to > recognize my net adapters first (doesn't find any), then recognizes > pcmcia cards which enables support for the usb adapter, then in my > rc.local I have to manually setup my ip address or tell to use dhcp. > > Hmmm, from inside the gentoo system, I found lsmod was empty (which > could be normal as I wanted everything compiled in the kernel) and > lspci was not found... > > I'm pretty confortable with everything exept these pcmcia cards... if > anybody could give me a hand! > > Thanks, Simon > > Below are extracts from my current system (slax6rc6, livelinux based > on slackware)
# lspci -v will show you more detail. So, should lshw, when you install it. From the listed modules these seem to deal with your cardbus: yenta_socket 24076 3 rsrc_nonstatic 11776 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 33684 4 3c589_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia 32172 1 3c589_cs Build the relevant USB drivers for your machine into the kernel. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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