cant load eth0

alienhazard · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 91

after the install of 1.4 rc1 went fine, i rebooted it. but in the kernel messeges it said something like "bringing up eth0" and then failed. i checked resolv.conf and it was right. when i tryed ifconfig it said something about "loopback" instead of "up broadcast running" etc . if you can help me that'd be l337.

matt

de4d · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 12:58 am Post subject:

maybe u forgot compiling the NIC driver in2 kernel or add NIC module name to /etc/modules.autoload
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alienhazard · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 91

i added the tulip driver to modules.autoload (thats the one my nic uses) but it failed to load. i tried "modprobe tulip" and it couldn't find it. so i guess did i forget to compile it w/ the kernel? how do i fix this since i cant use the internet on it?

pilla · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 1:08 am Post subject:

You'll have to compile a new kernel and include the options for your network card.

It is inside

alienhazard · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 91

i tried doing that but it didnt work. i didn't see the tulip driver as a option, so i tried the other smc drivers but they didnt work. i tried downloading the driver in windows and puting it on floppy, but i cant access my floppy in gentoo. i tried editing fstab but am not sure what the line should be. also i want to be able to mount my windows xp partition read-only (since thats all the support there is for ntfs). if u can help me with this too that'd be l337

matt

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

The tulip driver is under "Network device support->Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)->DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support"

You can mount a "DOS" floppy by doing: