Can't get Gentoo to connect to internet [Solved]

[theethicalatheist]

I've been banging my head against the wall for a few days now, because I can't seem to get my ethernet device to work. For all other distros I've used, my ethernet device is eth0. Now, when I boot up the Gentoo liveCD, it uses eth2. So when I installed Gentoo to the hard drive, I selected eth2 since that's what was working. When I boot up Gentoo, I get:

* Starting eth2
* Bringing up eth2
* dhcp
* eth2 does not exist

Now why would eth2 not exist, when that's what the liveCD uses? I've tried installing Gentoo with eth0 set as default, and that doesn't get me anywhere either. Can someone point me in the right direction? I have a RealTek RTL8139 onboard ethernet port.

[NeddySeagoon]

chump,

Try this post
Be aware that the logical device names ethX are assigned in the order that interfaces are discovered, which can vary from kernel build to kernel build.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[theethicalatheist]

Thank you very much! It turned out the "8139too" module wasn't getting loaded. Everything's working great now.