Gentoo NIC drivers

[Duane Attaway]

Either that, or I'd try to compile it from another computer and put it on 
a floppy for loading.  I've actually installed gentoo on two computers 
with no cdroms.  A person can get real creative when things don't go 
right.  >:)

I'm unpacking the stage1-ix86-1.2.tar tarball and... ouch... its not
there...  I think I know what I did: I booted from a set of slackware
floppies to get a working kernel and network and chrooted into the stage1
install.  That's what I did!  If you can stand loading 5 slackware
floppies to get a working shell and insert the network disc to modprobe
the e100 driver (slackware _does_ have it) then you should be in business.  
Hopefully, all that doesn't scare you!

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Jeremy Fowler wrote:

> Ok, thanks. However, my problem is that they didn't include either one
> on the livecd iso image so I can't connect to the internet to download
> my stage 1 tar file and start the compile process. I tried to compile a
> driver to use on a separate system using the 2.4.19 source tree.
> However, it didn't work (and I tried both drivers). Probably due to the
> fact that it's an xfs-r1 modified kernel and I have no idea what kinds
> of patches they have applied to the running kernel on the iso image. The
> only way I got the compiled drivers to even attempt to load was to edit
> the version.h file and make it say '2.4.19-xfs-rc1'. Even after I did
> this, I get the 'init_module: No such device' error from insmod. So my
> problem is I need _compiled_ drivers for the 2.4.19-xfs-r1 kernel that
> is on the livecd-ut2003-i586-1.4.1.iso image for my Intel Pro/100 S
> NIC... any ideas?