[olug] Gentoo mininal LiveCD fails to recognize NICS

[Dave Thacker]

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 07:03, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> Which nics are in there? You can use lspci to check...... unless they are
> not pci.....
>

> > I've downloaded the Gentoo Minimal Live CD (V 2004.1)to once again take a
> > few hacks at a source based distro.  It fails to recognize the NIC on two 
> > of my older (MMX) machines.  

Tonight I tried the gentoo universal LiveCD on my Aptiva (PIII-500 mhz).  The 
NICS were not recognized on this machine either.  Here's my lspci output;

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 
03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 
03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive 
(rev 01)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine] (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 
64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

This machine is currently running Suse 9.0

Dave Thacker