XPost: alt.os.linux   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   Cross wrote:   
      
   > I was installing gentoo amd64 on my desktop.   
      
   I think that alt.os.linux.gentoo had been a better newsgroup to ask this   
   question (so I added it).   
      
   > The minimal install cd easily   
   > detected my eth0. Now, it is a Realtek device. I have enabled the kernle   
   modules   
   > which I thought would be necessary for network access.   
      
   Each time I have installed Gentoo on new hardware, I have run lsmod when   
   booted the install media, this shows which modules are loaded and gives a good   
   guideline which options to keep in the kernel when I building the new one (of   
   course lshw/lspci gives more info).   
      
   There is a number of Realtek drivers nowadays   
      
   RTL-8139 C+   
   RTL-8129/8130/8139   
   Realtek 8169   
      
   Which may require   
   Realtek PHYs   
      
   and sometimes there can be a unified driver that supports more than one kind   
   of  devices.   
      
      
   > I have a PPPoE   
   > connection. I have enabled drivers for them too. However, when I boot my   
   newly   
   > installed system, a boot message tells me that the kernel module for eth0 is   
   not   
   > found.   
      
   This indicates that you may have the wrong driver.   
      
      
   > i would like to know which setting am I missing. If particular data about   
   > my kernel configuration is required and can be obtained from the .config   
   file, I   
   > shall furnish that.   
      
   I do recommend you to enable   
   General setup  --->   
     <*> Kernel .config support   
      
   there been times I have managed by mistake delete the source directory (I   
   sometimes test my own kernel patches) and loose the .config file together with   
   the directory or that I have made some changes in the config that I want to   
   rewert hos it was in another compile of the same kernel version, then it's so   
   handy to get the file from /proc/config.gz   
      
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     //Aho   
      
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