Gentoo NIC drivers

[Jeremy Fowler]

> 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.  >:)

That's exactly what I did... didn't work.

> 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!

Nonsense, annoy or frustrate would probably be more accurate. What I'm going to
try is download the 1.2 iso image and boot up from that, then download the
stage1-x86-1.4_rc1-20020908-1208.tar.bz2 file. Still, you would think for a demo
disk for UT2003, they would include as many NICs as possible. They didn't even
add 3COM drivers.

>
> 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?
>