Failed to bring eth0 up! Please Help!

Max0mus · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 3

Okay i have a fresh gentoo 1.2 but the only problem is that i get this error

Failed to bring eth0 up
Error: Problem starting needed services
netmount was not started

i have a linksys etherfast 10/100 nic that i thought was supported in the kernel and i didnt have to do modules (dont know if i do or not, or even what a module is) and am using DHCP.

I have checked /etc/con.d/net and made sure that i have the dhcp setting right... at least as sure as i can be... and i have done the rc-update add net.eth0 default... do i need some form of a service running? do i need to recompile the kernel in some way? is it dhcp?

Any help would be grateful! Thanks in advance!

taskara · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 5:30 am Post subject:

manually run
dhcpcd eth0

at the shell and see what that does.

can u post your /etc/con.d/net file ?
everything shoudl be hashed out (#) except for
iface_eth0="dhcp"

DArtagnan · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 5:43 am Post subject:

Make sure kernel supports your net-card module !
Make sure /etc/conf.d/net is configured ok ( dhcp, netmask, gateway...)
If you use ADSL load ppp* protocols as:
# modprobe ppp*
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Max0mus · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 3

Thanks for helping... i figured it out myself... i had the wrong ethernet card in the kernel DOH! so i recompiled it and everything works like a charm!

taskara · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:43 am Post subject:

hehehehe