eth1 won't load at startup

southerngentooman · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 35

Hi yall,

I installed 2006.0 off a LiveCD. During the install, the network connection was fine and preconfigure was filled in, but showed the nic as eth0

After the install, eth0 seems to refer to my motherboards firewire connection. I get an network error after eth0 is started.

I can manually start the network with:

ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.104
route add default gw 192.168.2.1

How do I get eth1 intialized at startup instead of eth0?
I tried to add to /etc/conf.d/net to no avail

I'm hoping someone has already figured out the best workaround.

thanks,
southerngentooman

Bad Penguin · Guru Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 507

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

southerngentooman · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 35

Humm,

well I can now ping but
x11 died.

tried removing the changes, and
x still dies. get a hires screen with a moveable
x cursor.

suggestions?

thanks

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

X actually dies but didn't before? Can't imagine the two could possibly be related... but anyway, the output of

southerngentooman · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 35

drwook, Thanks for the assist.

Turns out, X11 was OK. My guess is that one of the config files for KDE was corrupted, and X didn't quiet know what to do. Anyway, there didn't seem to be any relationship between the problems as you suggested. After I got it working again, I tired to duplicate the problem and couldn't. So, your fix worked fine and my GUI issue was just a fluke.

Thanks much for your help.

nixnut · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security.
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