eth0 is not recognised

TheCoop · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 1:23 pm Post subject: eth0 is not recognised

i followed the install instructions to create the relevant net.eth scripts, and it all worked fine. except now, when ever i startup, it gives this message:

dhcpcd[3337]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device

the kernel net card modules (mii and 8139too) load fine.

the startup before the problems occured, fsck checked the root filesystem and cleaned it, giving no details, and i recompiled the kernel to include acpi support (not touching net settings at all)

what has been lost in the fsck cleanup, and how do i get it back?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Did you NIC work just during the install, or had you used it for a while after the
install/reboot was completed? What does ifconfig -a tell you?
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ZagiFlyer · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 7:57 pm Post subject: Sequence problem

I was getting this too on my Dell laptop. I haven't fixed it, but I can give a work-around until someone better with the startup environment in Gentoo can fix it.

For a home networking environment connected to the internet via DSL/Cable (as root, duh):
1) /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
2) route add -net default gw $GATEWAY netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
(put in your gateway address in place of $GATEWAY)

The root cause appears to be that the network is initializing before the network device modules have been loaded.

I don't claim this is an optimized answer, but it works for me.
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ealfert · Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 10:03 pm Post subject:

This just happened to me after updating some packages...

it seems the problems is that the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 file was modified

you need to change "use pcmcia" to "need pcmcia" at the top of the file...

remember when you did that when you first installed the pcmcia network card when you went through the install for the first time? well.. you'll have to do that every time /etc/init.d/net.eth0 is overwritten.

Hope this helps you avoiding have to manually type "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart" after every reboot.
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