No netwrok after install

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Crooksey · Post by **Crooksey** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:24 am

Last night as i was stapped for time i used the LiveCD installer fro 2006.0, using gentoo-sources, websync and the standard packages, so for 1 i know that my eth0 card is supported, 2, my install was 100% sucessfull, so in the morning i boot into gentoo, goto emerge some stuff, cannot connect, hmm ok, so i run and ifconfig, and low and behlold no network card is listed, so my question is...how do i get my network card to be detected and run from boot.

My card is listed in lspci, and if you want the make of it, "Marvell Tech, Ethernet Controller, PCI-E Gigabit"

sfragis · Post by **sfragis** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:45 pm

Hi Crooksey,
following are common steps needed to setup such a card:

compile the kernel module: go to Device Drivers > Network device support > Ethernet (1000 Mbit) and see which module is right for your card (for my Marvell 88E8001 with Yukon chipset I can use both skge and sk98lin)
configure /etc/conf.d/net (read /etc/conf.d/net.example as an help on how setup dhcp, ip and mask)
ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0
rc-update add net.eth0 default
write the module in /etc/module.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 in order to load it on boot

Crooksey · Post by **Crooksey** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:45 pm

How would i add the modules? I used the liveCD and gentoo-sources.

cyblord · Post by **cyblord** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:03 pm

check this guide out:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-46 ... yukon.html

Crooksey · Post by **Crooksey** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:22 pm

So i added the kernel modules, did all off the above, and yet eth0 does not exist. Any more ideas?

sfragis · Post by **sfragis** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:52 pm

First, is module correctly loaded? See the output of dmesg after, report it if any error accours.
After module gets loaded correctly, try to configure the eth0 interface with ifconfig. Following is an example, adjust it according to your settings (ip, network, interface and so on):

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# adds the eth0 interface with 192.168.1.1 address
$ ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
# add the default gateway, in this case 192.168.1.254 (this is useful if you have a router)
$ route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0  gw 192.168.1.254
# prints out informations about the eth0 interface
$ ifconfig eth0

Now, if everything works, you should have an eth0 interface up. If this is the case, customize /etc/conf.d/net and you'll have your interface up on every boot.