eth0 Hell

bdemore · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 67

I've had Gentoo installed a couple of times on this box with the same NIC card, identified as an AMD Commet by lsmod. I've never experienced this vexing problem. I just finished re-installing, had no problem with my network connection, put the tulip module used by the live CD during install in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4, finished the install and rebooted. Cannot ping an address, i.e google.com, an external ip, nor an internal ip on my network. When trying to ping my router, I get Destination host unreachable. ifconfig shows eth0 correctly but with no traffic. There are no errors during startup, however dmesg shows an endless string of NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: Transmit Timed Out. I tried dynamic routing in /etc/conf.d/net to no avail. I also recompiled the kernel with the tulip driver built in, still no luck. Someone please help me!

lazarusrat · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:57 pm Post subject:

According to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57207, you might want to try booting with pci=noacpi (the post says apci, apic, and acpi. pci=noacpi is the correct option).
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bdemore · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 67

Yeah, during my initial investigation I read something about this also, so I verified that ACPI was not enabled in my kernel. Still no luck. Do you think I should add it to my boot script also :?:

lazarusrat · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 5:18 pm Post subject:

If you don't have ACPI in your kernel I don't think adding that to the boot manager conf will have any effect, but it also shouldn't break anything.
What about APIC? Do you have that enabled? That and, given the error, watchdog card support are the only things I can think of right now that might have an effect.
What happens if you try "dhcpcd eth0" directly instead of through the /etc/init.d scripts?
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bdemore · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 67

What is watchdog card support? I'm not at home now but I'll check APIC when I get home. Do you happen to know where that option is on the kernel menu? I'll also try "dhcpcd eth0". Thanks for all your help. I think this must be a kernel config issue b/c I tested the card in another computer, tested the router, and even the cable.

lazarusrat · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject:

I'm not at home right now either, so I'm not sure about watchdog card support (character devices maybe?). APIC is under general setup, I'm pretty sure.
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bdemore · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 67

OK, I disabled APIC and ACPI in the kernel and Voila, I've got a network again. Thanks for the help!