On Tuesday 27 October 2009 23:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote: > Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the > link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name > is, besides the fact that the name includes "Tornado". Also note that it > worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd. > > To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after > that, what driver do I need?
Typical tools used to probe devices and read the details of them are: lshw hwconf To read your PCI connected devices you need: lspci -v If you have the correct drivers for your NIC then it will show up when you run: ifconfig -a although it may not have an IP address unless dhcpcd is running. If these commands are not on your current LiveCD, burn a Knoppix CD/DVD or SystemRescueCd or equivalent. They have all these commands available and if your NIC is working they would have most likely loaded the necessary module: lsmod will show the loaded modules. Finally, dmesg | grep eth0 (if e.g. eth0 shows up in ifconfig) will show you what you card is recognised as: $ dmesg | grep -i eth0 e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x40100000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:02:a5:b6:a1:8f e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex If as you say the Minimal CD works, then I recommend that you boot with that and run the above commands making notes what is the NIC module the CD kernel has loaded. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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