kernel panic on r1000 use

[bog]

hi guys,

i just set up gentoo via the amd64 minimal livecd (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-505165-highlight-jmb363.html) on my computer with asus p5b motherboard. i used that particular livecd because the board features the jmicron jmb36x chip which is in control of both pata and sata controlling, and without those i'd just have no usable installation media.

in the final stages of the installation, i have acquired and compiled 2.6.18-emission1 sources that boot up just fine. with the kernel i've also managed to overcome the jmicron-controller issue.

now as i boot up, everything works fine (for the first time that i don't use genkernel! congratulate me!) EXCEPT for the ethernet card. it's an onboard chip, lspci said it's an realtek rtl8111/rtl8168(B), so i took a look at the wiki. the first approach mentioned didn't work at all. looks like the rtl8169 driver in 2.6.18-emission1 doesn't support rtl8168 chips yet. the second approach, building the module manually, didn't work either. as it appears, the driver sources realtek provides apparently don't compile well with newer 2.6 kernels.

afterwards, i scoured the forums here and found, among others, this thread, by which my compilation issue was resolved errorless. the module compiled fine, i could even modprobe it and it was shown in lsmod as working, however as i /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start'ed it, i got a kernel panic locking up the system. i rebooted and modprobed, which again worked fine, and started it via the initscript, again i got a kernel panic. i also tried activating it with 'ifconfig eth0 up', but that gave me the same result.

i don't quite know what to do now. using the system without an ethernet card is not an option, as i emerged my stuff mostly from the web. is the r1000-driver i compiled maybe incompatible to the 2.6.18-emission1 kernel? is it an amd64 issue? should i try another kernel?

thanks for ANY input.

[bog]

i just compiled a 2.6.18-rc4-no2 (no sources) kernel. its r8169 also supports the rtl8168/rtl8111 card.

problem solved.