can't get LAN to work after install

geekrock · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Virginia

after installing gentoo (everything went smoothly) i get these messages while booting the system.

*Bringing eth0 up...
*Failed to bring eth0 up

*ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
"netmount" was not started.

Could someone help me to get my lan working? Gentoo is installed on my desktop, 3com network card (driver installed into the kernel) hooked into a hub and then my laptop is also hooked into the hub. The laptop is providing net access.

Thanks in advance.

Joshua

ebrostig

rac · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject:

When you are booted from your self-compiled kernel, can you try running the ifconfig command manually using the settings you specified in /etc/conf.d/net, to try to bring eth0 up, and post any errors you receive?
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geekrock · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Virginia

ifconfig basically just tells me my network isn't UP or RUNNING... loopback is working of course

.. i have it setup to use DHCP... i wasn't 100% sure how to configure that so i just uncommented the dhcp line in my net config file and commented the static IP part. if there is anymore info i can provide, please let me know.

rac · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 9:15 pm Post subject:

OK, then try

ebrostig · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 9:52 pm Post subject:

geekrock · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Virginia

thanks for the tip ebrostig, but it still didn't work

i dunno what to do.... i'm using metalog, where does it store info on dhcpcd's output?

Joshua

rac · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: no dice

geekrock · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Virginia

the only output dhcpcd has in my log is as follows:

Sep 12 15:33:27 [dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device

i also noticed something else... when i'm booting up, it says some local file systems couldn't be mounted... could that be the network file system? probalby not since it's earlier in the boot process.

Joshua

rac · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 12:47 am Post subject: Re: dhcpcd

geekrock · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Virginia

i did a cat /proc/pci and it recognizes my network card... i noticed something funny though, when i did an ifconfig -a... it's coming up "dummy0" for the first entry. and then the second entry is of course "lo".... maybe this will help?

Joshua

tsigo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 122

I have the exact same problem.

Same error message when I do dhcpd debug mode, and my network card (3c905C) is listed in /proc/pci. I made sure to compile support for it into the kernel.

No dummy0 entry in ifconfig -a, though, just lo. This is only happening since the fresh install of 1.4 rc1. Obviously it worked fine during the install process.

rac · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 11:53 pm Post subject:

I looked at a few pages of Google results and at the source code for arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.c and I still can't convince myself that the fact that something appears in /proc/pci means that the driver is loaded correctly. Is anyone sure about this?
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tsigo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 122

I recompiled the kernel, made sure that the drivers for 3c905x was built in and not a module and then re-copied it to /boot (after mounting it) and it seemed to fix it.