[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Jarod Wilson]

Like the man said, this is OT. Rather than continuing to discuss OT-for-Myth 
subject of the installing Gentoo on cranky hardware, point the man to the 
Gentoo forums.

http://forums.gentoo.org/


On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:03, Michael Haan wrote:
> Two thoughts:
>
> 1) Maybe the gentoo cd is identifying your card correctly, but
> something else is preventing it from working (I've had this happen) -
> try lsmod and see if there is a module loaded for your nic.
>
> 2) Try something like Kanotix or Knoppix.  They're very good at
> identifying hw.  In fact, due to my NIC, I do my entire Gentoo install
> by booting Kanotix and then using the Gentoo Alternate Install guide
> (just Google) that and it all works fine.
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:56:10 -0600, John Williams
>
> <williamsbyron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alright,
> > After all the Gentoo love around here, I decided a few days ago to try
> > gentoo. I've got an old HP celeron 550 and thought if it can optimize
> > maybe I cam make something useful out of this box. Well after getting
> > the first install up and booting, I was dead in the water because it
> > wasn't recognizing my Network card (and heck if I know what that built
> > in thing is). So then I decided to go with a level (some name like
> > that) 3 install because it was faster and was supposed to be more like
> > the live CD. Well, that didn't help becaus enow it is acsking what
> > kernel modules to load including network card driver. All that to say
> > I'm a relative newbee with Linux, but really want to learn more. I
> > know I need more info about my hardware. Is there a hardware
> > identification app out there that will tell you what you have in
> > english? Something I could use to set up my system.
> >
> > OK so it's OT, but point in the right direction and I'll ask there.
> > I'm stoked about the idea, but it's not gogin so well for me.
> >
> > BTW, I do like emerge.

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