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I just setup Gentoo successfully (well except the XFree86 and KDE applications), and do emerge them, or do I have to download the sources myself from the respected web sites (I know emerging downloads and compiles the sources)?
Thanks, but that will have come later as I am having trouble getting my NIC to work in Gentoo.
I tried my best to follow the directions over at http://www.gentoo.org but when it comes down to the final networking configuration (after you compile the kernel and such) it tells you to edit /etc/conf.d/net but I can't tell what they want me to edit in to the file.
I already tried getting the OS to use 2 different driver modules for my NIC (tulip and dmfe) and that's not working. If the file (/etc/conf.d/net) is not the source of the problem what is?
My NIC is a CNet PRO200WL PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter, it's based on a Davicom chip.
When I type ifconfig into the console eth0 is listed.
Originally posted by Seph64 Thanks, but that will have come later as I am having trouble getting my NIC to work in Gentoo.
I tried my best to follow the directions over at http://www.gentoo.org but when it comes down to the final networking configuration (after you compile the kernel and such) it tells you to edit /etc/conf.d/net but I can't tell what they want me to edit in to the file.
That's for your network configuration. Edit that to reflect your network configuration.
Did you compile the nic support as a module and if so, have you loaded the module?
If you were installing from a live CD and it was configured so you could connect to install, you could use it and look at what config it uses and copy to your install.
You can also do the d/l and install in the chroot environment as well.
Thanks, I just ended up copying the /etc/conf.d/net file from the livecd to the /etc/conf.d/ on the partition, now I emerge vim, and in the process of compiling links.
Well, I compiled at nice -n 19 since I am a heavy multitasker and I am usually runing tons of other stuff. That cuts out a lot of lag while building but at the cost of compiling speed.
There's nothing in that file that states MOUSE=XX (xx = mouse protocol), could it be that it isn't configured correctly?
Quote:
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/gpm/files/gpm.rc6,v 1.9 2003/02/14 23:27:47 vapier Exp $
#NB: Config is in /etc/conf.d/gpm
depend() {
need localmount
use hotplug
}
checkconfig() {
if [ -z "$MOUSEDEV" ] || [ -z "$MOUSE" ] ; then
eerror "You need to setup MOUSEDEV and MOUSE in /etc/conf.d/gpm first"
return 1
fi
}
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