Cannot Ping localhost or any outer networks

enginerd · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 19

I just finished installing gentoo after buying some new hard drives and a new video card. After rebooting though I have no networking.

ifconfig shows that both eth0 and lo are up and eth0 seems to get its information correctly via DHCP but if I try to ping localhost I get no response, needless to say no external pings work nor do any locally connected hosts.

When I try to restart eth0 ( /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart ) I get a kernel panic. The same occurs for a dhcpcd eth0 after I shut down net.eth0 so I can use dhcpcd.

/var/log/messages shows that on boot it gets a response from the dhcp server.

netstat -rn shows that my gateway is recognized and hints to me that resolv.conf is getting set and even deleting /etc/resolve.conf then rebooting the computer causes resolve.conf to get remade when eth0 comes up.

The only thing that occurs after eth0 comes up at boot time is netmount, but even after disabling it the problem still persists.

I am lost as far as more ideas to get this working. When I installed this system last year I used this same method, although I used ext3 instead of XFS which I used this time. The only hardware change has been a new video card and more hard drives so I think all of that is unrelated.

My network card is an ethernet express pro 10/100 card by intel and I have tried both drivers for it and used the PIO and MMIO settings for the first driver and still no luck. Any similar situations or suggestions are welcome and ver appreciated.

Cheers

UPDATE:

I just let the computer sit there for about 15 minutes and got the same kernel panic error, so I guess I am about to boot to the live CD and see if I can get some update dmesg output from it.
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Helena · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 9:52 pm Post subject:

I remember vaguely having similar problems. It seems interrupt-related to me. You should check at least your ACPI, APIC BIOS & kernel settings. Maybe even add "pci=noaccpi" or even "acpi=off" to the kernel line, byut dmesg may already have told you that.

enginerd · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 19

It is interrupt related since that is the error I get when attempting to do anything related to my NIC. I had already removed ACPI and APM from the kernel since I read it could interfere with my NIC functioning correctly. Do I still need to pass that parameter?
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enginerd · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 19

not totally sure which fixed it but i recompiled the kernel with the clean parameter just to be sure everything nasty was removed, and also passed noacpi to the kernel on boot. Thanks for the help problem is now solved

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