Problem with network...

[HopChop]

I’m having some strange problems with a Gentoo 1.2 installation. During installation there were no problems with network connectivity. After the installation, i.e. when booting up the system, there’s no connectivity at all. I can ping the local interface without problems, but any traffic to the rest of the network won’t work.



The eth0 service starts fine.
I’ve tried different network cards (3c905c, 3c980 and rtl8139) and to compile the driver in the kernel as well as run it as a module.
I use the same driver which was used during the install (ran lsmod to see which module was used).
The RX and TX packet counters show 0 packets. /proc/interrupts shows no interrupts for the nic.
Link is established between the nic and the hub.
The network IP configuration and the route table are OK.
The nic won’t grab a dhcp address (timeout error), but a manual configuration works (i.e. eth0 starts and you can ping the local interface)


If I hadn’t known better I would suspect a wrongly configured iptables, but that’s not the problem as it’s not even installed. The only suggestion I can think of is perhaps a chip-set related issue (haven’t checked which drivers have been compiled in the kernel yet – came to think of this just now). Other ideas?

[rac]

In case it helps you for comparison purposes, the kernel config file for the 1.2 install CD is here.
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[de4d]

ive had a similar problem when upgrading to an 2.4 alpha (when 2.2 was the stable release).
afair the problem was like the 1 u described...
try downgrading to a prior realease and try again
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