eth0 failed

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

I was wondering how to reconfigure my ethernet since upon install it fails to load because of..... well I guess a setting error. How do I reconfigure it and is there a auto configuration?? cause the boot CD for the Gentoo install loaded it without any other configurations, but the install having troubles.

professorn · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:48 pm Post subject:

/etc/conf.d/net ? I think you have to set the gateway amnualy, so that might be the problem

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

humm, ok, well I set it for dhcp, but hey, here are the messages I received:

zhouxuan37 · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 15

MrPyro · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 3:52 pm Post subject:

Just posted this somewhere else, but what the hey....

Make sure that you have the appropriate driver for your network card compiled into your kernel or loaded as a module (which of these you do is up to you, but given that you're having problems I'd suggest module, as you can then try to load it manually and therefore see any errors more easily). To find out which module you should be using, you can either drop your network card model into google with "linux module" and see if anyone has listed it, or reboot using the Gentoo CD and run "lsmod" to see what kernel modules the CD loads for your card.

conf.d/net: if you have uncommented the dhcpcd_eth0 line, make sure you have removed the ... from inside the quotes (this has to be one of the stupidest defaults I've seen in a configuration file, cos most people will just uncomment it and assume it works because they don't need any special options. Those three dots will actually kill the DHCP client). the dhcpcd_eth0 line should either be empty

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

the problem is not my IP address or my DHCP address it is my eth0,... the network card, it isn't being brought up and I found what module it is using so now my question is how do I make linux load up the module nvmod???

Lews_Therin · l33t Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 657 Location: Banned

Since you know what module is being used, compile it into your kernel.

Andi001 · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 1

Hi,

I have the same Problem with my RealTek 8139 Card. I can load the module '8139too', but dhcpcd doesnt work. ifconfig eth0 up/down works fine, but if i type 'dhcpcd eth0' it exits with failure. Then i have tested udhcpc and dhclient, but they don't work too. dhclient says something like 'network down'. How can this be? I never had problem with this card and module. If i boot the Live-CD it works with the same module and with the same configuration (at least it looks so). The kernel i have recompiled at least five times to find the problem there.. but i did not find it :/

see ya, Andi001

MrPyro · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 8:34 am Post subject:

Andi001: if the card works with a static IP address then the problem is not with the network card module not being correct; if the network card module wasn't loaded properly eth0 wouldn't exist at all

Visseroth: Just checked some stuff out: try emerging nforce-net