[gentoo-user] grub.conf

2008-08-31 Thread vetrocemento
Hi guys, I've succesfully installed gentoo on my pc, but when i wrote grub.conf, i've made a mistake; in the second line, instead of < kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.25- gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda3> i wrote < kernel /boot/linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda3>. I discovered this when i tried to boot and g

[gentoo-user] no network device

2008-09-01 Thread vetrocemento
Hi again :) I'm havin troubles with my network card :) my gentoo doesn't recognize it. during kernel configuration I haven't installed network drivers because there were no atheros chipset drivers. should I download them from the web, load them on a memory drive and install them? btw the network

[gentoo-user] make menuconfig

2008-09-03 Thread vetrocemento
Hi people :) can anyone help me setting the kernel with only the strictly needed modules for the my laptop's hardware? Here is my 'lspci' print and a generic description of the laptop: laptop: IBM Thinkpad R60 Intel Centrino duo T2300 1,66 Ghz 512 Mb ram 80 Gb sata HD

[gentoo-user] network drivers

2008-09-04 Thread vetrocemento
Hi guys. why while in livecd mode my ethernet device (Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21) ) works perfectly out of the box, in dhcp mode, but after installing gentoo, system says ' network interface eth0 does not exist'? in kernel'