Everything installs fine except network device

[alchemst]

So I go through the whole install process and everything goes great. I note during the install that my network module is identified as "mii". I forget what the actual chipset is based on but add that to the modules.autoload (or whatever that file was called) when I was done building my kernel. Reboot and everything is good except it can't find that module. I figure that I missed it in the kernel build, so I go back, enable most of the PCI network cards as modules, rebuild, reinstall, reinstall modules, and reboot. This time, it properly loads the mii module, but the network initialization bombs out during init with a device not found type of message.

I checked with lsmod and mii shows up. However, if I check for /dev/eth0, then no device shows up. My /etc/init.d/*eth0* file looks good, but the eth0 itself isn't appearing. ifconfig only shows the loopback device.

Any idea what I'm missing? I haven't mucked around much with devfs before. As I understand it, its supposed to be automagical and virtual, but is there anything I need to do to poke it into seeing my device? Or am I missing some kernel option beyond tcp/ip and mii?

[rac]

Is net.eth0 in the default runlevel?

[alchemst]

I'm pretty sure that /etc/conf.d/net was correct, but I'll copy it below in case I'm missing something. However, shouldn't this file only apply to the initial ifconfig to bring the interface up? My problem appears to be happening before that. (or more specifically, something appears to NOT be happening that is keeping /dev/eth0 from appearing).

And yes, I'd run rc-update. I reran it with the arguments provided just now and it said that it was skipping it as it already existing.

When I boot, here's the first message that seems to be indicative of my problems:
* Bring eth0 up...
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
followed by other steps of the network initialization and other SIOC errors.

net:
iface_eth0="10.1.1.5 broadcast 10.255.255.255 netmask 255.0.0.0"
alias_eth0="10.1.1.5 10.1.1.6"

[jcostom]

[Naan Yaar]

If you do 'lspci' (this is part of the pciutils package, and, I think, part of the boot cd), it will show you what device you have.

Otherwise, if you reboot with the gentoo boot CD, do lsmod and note the list of modules (or do lspci) to find out what you need.

[alchemst]

Thanks jcostom! Adding 8139too was it.

I assume that adding it to /etc/modules.autoload will cause it to always work correctly on boot?

[jcostom]