Realtek 8029

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Vortigern · Post by **Vortigern** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:40 pm

Hi everybody,
I'm in a big trouble with my ethernet card. I compiled Gentoo 2005.1-r1 from stage 1, compiled the modules for the old realtek, but, at the boot, the system doesn't start eth0.
The ifconfig command gives me only lo information, nothing about eth0; different when I in the bootable CD enviroment, there it recognize my card and the net goes well.
Please help me!

rev138 · Post by **rev138** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:45 pm

When booted from the liveCD, type

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# lsmod

This will list all of the modules that are loaded for your hardware. If you can figure out which is for your NIC, make sure it's enabled in the kernel config.

If the module doesn;t load at boot, add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x

Vortigern · Post by **Vortigern** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:52 pm

I'll do as you ask, but I should say that I've compiled the hardware modules for my ethernet adapter as built-in, not as modules.

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:26 pm

this thread may help too.. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=12218%2006

rev138 · Post by **rev138** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:43 am

Vortigern wrote:I'll do as you ask, but I should say that I've compiled the hardware modules for my ethernet adapter as built-in, not as modules.

Shouldn't really matter. This test will just make sure that the driver the liveCD is using is the same one you've built.

If it still doesn't work, try activating coldplug.

WarMachine · Post by **WarMachine** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:18 am

See my thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-28 ... ight-.html

Basically I had a weird issue with it only working as a module, and not compiled directly.

Vortigern · Post by **Vortigern** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:08 pm

Ok, I've done

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lsmod

from the live CD enviroment, here is the result:

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Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc             28004  0 
parport                22696  1 parport_pc
floppy                 45204  1 
pcspkr                  2764  0 
rtc                     8940  0 
ne2k_pci                7104  0 
8390                    7104  1 ne2k_pci
dm_mirror              15868  0 
dm_mod                 38340  1 dm_mirror
ata_piix                6244  0 
ahci                    7972  0 
sata_qstor              6468  0 
sata_vsc                5284  0 
sata_uli                4576  0 
sata_sis                4448  0 
sata_sx4                9924  0 
sata_nv                 5988  0 
sata_via                5572  0 
sata_svw                4868  0 
sata_sil                6116  0 
sata_promise            7300  0 
libata                 28036  12 ata_piix,ahci,sata_qstor,sata_vsc,sata_uli,sata_sis,sata_sx4,sata_nv,sata_via,sata_svw,sata_sil,sata_promise
sbp2                   17160  0 
ohci1394               26388  0 
ieee1394               59192  2 sbp2,ohci1394
sl811_hcd               9664  0 
ohci_hcd               15396  0 
uhci_hcd               24368  0 
usb_storage            50464  0 
usbhid                 26112  0 
ehci_hcd               23272  0 
usbcore                76892  7 sl811_hcd,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd

Should I compile againg the Kernel? Because I've built in the modules for realtek 8139. If I should do this, could you gently tell me which command I will have to use to uncompile the kernel? And where I will find the modules ne2k?

Vortigern · Post by **Vortigern** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:43 am

So, anyone could help me? Just tell me what to do!
Thanks.

magic919 · Post by **magic919** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:04 am

It looks like your card - shown as ne2k_pci is using 8390 module. My current kernel doesn't have that. Basically you want to go to /usr/src/linux and run make menuconfig.

This will be like when you first built your kernel. It's not that important to deselect the unused module, but you can do it. Look for that 8390 module and enable that. You could grep 8390 .config to look for the full name of it