Woohoo! kernel works! Need help with eth0

[darksarin]

Yes, I am a noob! That's okay though, just emerged and compiled mm-sources, and they work!

Here's the complaints I get at boot:

1> DevFS not compiled in, gentoo needs it, please recompile. Can I do this from my shiny new install, and if so, do I just do the make menuconfig like before, and then add devFS? Then I would copy over the recompiled kernel to /boot/kernel. Question is, do I need to this from the CD or no, and do I *really* need DevFS?

2> Failed to load nvidia. I added the module to /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 (or whereever the docs say to do it), as nvidia.o. Is this right? If so, what are some other possible solutions?

3> Failed to bring up eth0 && netmount not started (because of eth0 not starting). I checked my conf.d/net config, and iface_eth0="dhcp" as it should. I compiled in 8169 to the kernel (not as a module). I can't do *anything* net related, which includes emerge.

4> While installing, I could not do: modules_update. This threw a warning: could not generate modules.conf. This is *VERY* bad, as I understand it. To get around this, I copied modules.devfs (or somesuch) to modules.conf, but I feel that that might be causing problems.

5>Other than this I have a working system. Most commands work fine, and I am able to poke around in the code all I want. The trouble is, I can't upgrade jack, since I don't have the net. So, other than fixing local stuff (config files), I can't work on anything other than the net problems.

I appreciate any help I can get, so I will definitely provide any information I can find. Just be very specific, as I am new to this. But I will do everything I can.
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We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully, and hope that you are pleased with our unintelligent diligence" --Wherry (1995) pp. 1-2.

[steveb]

[ach1lles]

wow what timing, i finally got through install and have a working system now (YAAAAAAAAAY!) but i'm having the same problem, no net, eth0 isn't working. it always worked through the install itself, just a simple eth0=dhcp worked fine, but now it's not.

i think i mucked around in the kernel too much, with the pci stuff, because in some of the other install attempts i booted with dopcmcia and never had a mouse. but for some reason i just booted with plain gentoo this time, and my mouse worked all through the install. so i think perhaps i DON'T need pcmcia stuff.. although my nic is a pci card.

ANYWAYS.. what i'm wondering is if there is perhaps some way to like.. have make menuconfig load em.. the defaults? because the system did a pretty good job of detecting my hardware, and i'd like to recompile the kernel with the only adjustsments being filesystem support.. and let it figure everything else out. does the default kernel config before you start mucking around load all the modules and settings that it detected/used during the install process? cause it was dead-on.

i just had to be an idiot and go around enabling a few things that looked like they might help. :T

[Tiger]

[darksarin]

I didn't install hotplug...maybe that is causing some of my problems?

Let me know.
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We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully, and hope that you are pleased with our unintelligent diligence" --Wherry (1995) pp. 1-2.

[ach1lles]

great, now i just gotta figure how to get my net working and i'll be good to go

[Tiger]

You did take the # out of the line with iface_eth0="dhcp"?
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[darksarin]

yes, I did uncomment that line. Also the one for eth1. Good idea though.
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[steveb]

are you sure you loaded the correct driver for the card? can you quickly post the output of "lspci" and the output of "lsmod" and the output of "dmesg" and the output of "ifconfig"?

cheers

SteveB

[Tiger]

Do an ifconfig -a and report the results.
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[darksarin]

dmesg gave me this:

[bleakcabal]

My ethernet is working with a 2.4 kernel but when I update to a 2.6 kernel I get the same message :

failed to bring eth0 up
netmount was not started

???
Any ideas ?

[darksarin]

Now this is bizarre. The onboard 10/100/1000 (realtek 8169) chip is eth1, not eth0, but now that I have the cable plugged to the PCI ethcard, it works just fine. Still not sure about the nvidia problem, and I still haven't fixed some other problems, but I am getting there.

To bleakcabal, if you have a second ethernet port, try that.
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We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully, and hope that you are pleased with our unintelligent diligence" --Wherry (1995) pp. 1-2.

[Tiger]

Try this on eth1.
ifconfig eth1
If you get this eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found you know the driver isn't getting loaded for some reason.

If the driver is getting loaded you simply need to add the NIC to conf.d/net with either the IP addy's or DHCP. You could also try net-setup eth1 and run through the questions.
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[darksarin]

The whole thing is working at this time, so I'm not gonna touch it. I'll mess with it later.

As a point, I am STILL getting a garbled message from the nvidia module. Any help?

Also, the last time I booted, I couldn't access grub. When i cd'd to /boot and typed ls -l, I got nothing. It was claiming an empty directory, even though I have it set to mount /dev/hdb1 as /boot. Any suggestions (I have an error in my grub.conf that I keep needing to fix every time I boot).
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We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully, and hope that you are pleased with our unintelligent diligence" --Wherry (1995) pp. 1-2.

[Tiger]

In Gentoo the /boot partition isn't mounted at boot time. You need to mount /dev/hdb1 /boot to access it to get at grub.conf.
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[darksarin]

That's odd. Shouldn't mount everything in /etc/fstab? I have that in there, and in most distros, this is the default behavior. Does gentoo only mount the root partition, and others that are necessary?
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We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully, and hope that you are pleased with our unintelligent diligence" --Wherry (1995) pp. 1-2.

[slycordinator]

[darksarin]

you're right -- it says no auto.
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We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully, and hope that you are pleased with our unintelligent diligence" --Wherry (1995) pp. 1-2.