Failed to bring up eth0....

[Arker]

I installed Gentoo for the first time this weekend and things seemed to go generally smoothly (aside from a few probs and about 5 kernel compiles, but who's counting?) except for a few glitches that still remain. One of them is my cable connection to the internet.

First of all, I have a Macronix MX987x5 ethernet card which requires the tulip drivers to function. Currently tulip is compiled into the kernel, although I get the same problem when I load it as a module. At the end of the boot routine, before login, there is a message that says that it failed to load tulip and it failed to bring up eth0. If I new where that stuff was logged on the system then I could be more specific as the message flies off the screen too quickly to read.

Anyways, after I log in, I have no connection to the internet. The following will illustrate what I do each time I log in in order to get a connection:

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root@newton arker$ dhcpcd eth0
****  dhcpcd: already running
****  dhcpcd: if not then delete /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid file
root@newton arker$ mv /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid.old
root@newton arker$ dhcpcd eth0

After this, my connection is fine. I hope I've given enough info... Probably not. If more is needed I'll be happy to provide! Now to figure out the sound and printing thing....

Cheers!
Arker

[rac]

If I new where that stuff was logged on the system then I could be more specific as the message flies off the screen too quickly to read.

The "dmesg" command should let you find the exact message. Along with it, could you also post the active contents of /etc/modules.autoload and /etc/conf.d/net, along with a note on any changes you have made to files under /etc/modules.d?

[Arker]

Y'know... I was working on this problem for almost two days, then within an hour of finally posting the question on this board, I found the problem.

In my confusion during the initial install I had incorrectly edited the /etc/conf.d/net file by uncommenting the

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iface_eth0="192.168.0.2 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"

and the

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iface_eth0="dhcp"

line. After re-commenting the first one all is well.

Thank you for your suggestions rac!

Cheers,
Arker

[rac]

Glad to hear it's fixed. I often find that the simple act of trying to explain a problem to someone else (even if they're fictional) clarifies things in my mind and suggests a solution.