eth0 working, but not loading? WTF? Linksys (tulip)

bn_me · n00b Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 5

Well. I'm stumped on this one.
I've made sure I included support for this sound card in the kernel (tulip - It's for the Linksys NIC's).
Anyhow, I'm here and posting in Gentoo. I only have one NIC, as you can imagine, eth0.

It works, but during bootup (Gentoo states it FAILS to load). The same thing goes when I try to start samba, it just can't plain start eth0.

Well, the only way I can get samba to work, is if Samba realizes that eth0 works. So confused. :cry:

BradN · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 6:31 am Post subject:

What do you do to make it start up, or is it just working to begin with? If it's PCMCIA, maybe the pcmcia stuff is starting it before the net.eth0 script?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Did you remember to mount /boot before copying the kernel to /boot? Does output from dmesg mention anything about eth0? Does ifconfig -a list eth0?
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He4D · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 26

have the same problem

li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

sometimes u forget

rc-update add net.eth0 default

try this /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

edit /etc/conf.d/net

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zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

My opinion:

Death to the tulip module! Long live the compiled-in tulip driver!

Seriously, I have problems using tulip module. modprobe refuses to find my NIC. Thus, I always have to use insmod, until I decided to just compile it into the kernel.