ifconfig not bringing up eth0 properly

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gte881s · Post by **gte881s** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:22 pm

i recently installed gentoo on my desktop and i am having problems brining up eth0. the "ifconfig eth0" returns the proper response, but eth0 is initially down. when i give the command ifconfig eth0 up i recieve the response: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented"

abzs2k · Post by **abzs2k** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:24 pm

Are you sure you compiled in the correct drivers for your NIC?

gte881s · Post by **gte881s** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:49 pm

yes i am. i used the taigon3 drivers for the broadcom nic on my soyo kt600 based motherboard. the livecd did not detect the nic initially on boot and i used the same driver to successfully bring up the interface for the installation. i built tg3 into the kernel rather than leaving it as a module for normal use.

Lajasha · Post by **Lajasha** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 8:09 pm

Not sure how valid this is in your case but ya might want to look here http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/VALinux-k ... error.html

gte881s · Post by **gte881s** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:34 am

i had a problem when i compiled the driver as a module rather than in the kernel. does anyone know why this may be? i have had trouble with kernel versions 2.4.25 and 2.6.7 thusfar. any further help is greatly appreciated.