networking module 'via-velocity' not loading

[puppies]

Howdy. I'm pretty new to gentoo myself. I did a stage 1 installation and everything went fine, except for one thing. My network doesnt load.

During boot it says it's loading the module 'via-velocity', but it fails.

I am running linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r14 and my ethernet controller is a VIA Rhine-II.

lspci says my ethernet controller is there, and the network comes up fine if i were to boot into the liveCd.

in /etc/conf.d/net, iface_eth0 is set to dhcp.

in /usr/src/linux/.config, CONFIG_VIA_RHINE is set to 'm'

if i run 'make modules modules_install' though, nothing gets fixed.

'modprobe via-velocity' turns up nothing.

i'm probably missing something. this is my first gentoo installation; i'm pretty happy that this is the only real problem i've had so far. does anyone have any ideas?

[lakerdonald]

when you "modprobe via-velocity", what does it say?

[puppies]

modprobe: Can't locate module via-velocity

[sarumont]

That may be the incorrect name. Is that the same name that the gentoo liveCD uses? If you can't remember, you can do this to find it:

cd /lib/modules/2.6.whatever.your.kernel.is/
find ./ -name *via*

That will give you all the modules that you have compiled with 'via' in them.

[lakerdonald]

so

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/

[puppies]

aha!

./kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o

[puppies]

i just did 'modprobe via-rhine' and it works now!

i also took a look in
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4

and found an entry:
via-velocity

i changed that to:
via-rhine

and now everything loads perfectly after a reboot, too.

Thanks alot!

[lakerdonald]

That's the magic of "find"!
-lakerdonald

[sarumont]

That's the magic of "find"!
-lakerdonald

The worst thing about the 'find' command is that it doesn't exist in real life.

find /drawer/ -name sock -type black