Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - success

2006-05-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/29/06, Kenneth Hopping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I finally got eth0 working, but it was a struggle. Glad you got it working. I selected the 3COM options like you suggested and recompiled the kernel. Unfortunately, during reboot I got "inva

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - success

2006-05-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Monday 29 May 2006 09:19 skrev Kenneth Hopping: > I selected the 3COM options like you suggested and recompiled the > kernel. Unfortunately, during reboot I got "invalid compressed format > (err=1)". I tried "make clean" to flush everything and compiled again > but it still wouldn't boot. My drasti

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - success

2006-05-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 00:19 -0700, Kenneth Hopping wrote: > I > also learned to always keep the last working kernel as a backup when you > reconfigure. And you can add another piece of self-taught knowledge to your toolkit :) This is one that I do without thinking now. -- Iain Buchanan You

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - success

2006-05-28 Thread Kenneth Hopping
Richard Fish wrote: Ok, when you go to configure your kernel, go under "Device Drivers->Network device support->Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)". Select the option "3COM cards", and then the "3c590/3c900 series..." with an 'M'. Assuming that you already configured and installed a kernel, so that /usr