From: Josh Catana (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Wed 17-May-2006 10:36:39 AM EDT
My guess is that the kernel was compiled without support for the device. Do
you see it in dmesg?
On 5/17/06, Hoy, Lane <[e-mail suppressed]> wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> Try adding the module name for whatever ethernet card that you are using
> to
> the file
> '/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6'. Gentoo will load the modules in
> this
> list into the
> kernel before doing anything else. For example, I pre-load the nvidia and
> tulip modules
> via this file.
>
> Lane Hoy
> University of Michigan School of Dentistry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail suppressed] on behalf of David Relson
> Sent: Wed 5/17/2006 7:39 AM
> To: lugwash
> Subject: [WLUG] gentoo & etho
>
> Having gotten gentoo installed and running a while ago, I
> rebooted it for the first time last night and ended up with no
> network connection. After a bit I discovered the following
> messages:
>
> Starting eth0
> Bringing up eth0
> 192.168.1.30
> eth0 does not exist
> ERROR: problem starting needed services.
> "netmount" was not started
>
> These messages are from /etc/init.d/net.eth0 (a symlink to net.lo)
> and /etc/init.d/netmount
>
> The "eth0 does not exist" comes from the call to interface_add_address
> in net.lo. I've not been able to find interface_add_address.
>
> Any thoughts on how to fix the problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
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