eth0 fails and netmount doesnt start

donkey1984 · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 25

I have a working gentoo system... but last night i lost my internet connect while i was asleep and I woke up to get online and it didnt work...I dont know what happend... I did an -U world... and there was only one update and it was pretty small.. i think it was an app... i cant remeber what it was.. I dont know if that effected it or not..
this is the error...

Bringing eth0 up
Failed to bring eth0 up
Error: Problem tarting needed services
"netmount" was not started

I dont know what I should do... i have checked everything i could think of... menuconfig.. make.conf... config.d/net.... but i cant get it to work.. It is a module in my kernel... and im going through a router dhcp... and dhcp is active in my config.d/net... and anyone help me... !!!! I even had a friend try to see whats wrong (he runs gentoo also) and he couldnt crack it... i would be thankful for any help you could give me... thanks..

Xenzeo · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 49

Just a suggestion:

Have you tryed running "dhcpcd eth0" manually too see if you get an ip...?

donkey1984 · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 25

I have tryed dhcpcd eth0 and it still doesnt work...

Iced-Tux · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject:

Exactly my problem, i ran an emerge world and left my pc compiling on OOffice 1.1.1 the whole night.
After rebooting failures as described (couldn't bring up eth0).
So whats happening ???
If anybody has a solution ...

donkey1984 · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 25

So if I took off my office would it work??

donkey1984 · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 25

I tried takin openoffice off... that didnt do the trick... does anyone have any solutions?? They would be greatly apprciated...

Nyarlathotep · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 7

I don't know how you got the idea that openoffice was resposible. Did you update hotplug last night? Because I did, and it destroyed my networking as well. Since you've given no details as to what hardware you have, I'm forced to assume you're having the exact same problem as me, and hopefully have all the right modules. (This is for a realtek 8139 chipset NIC)

1. log in as root.
2. do "lsmod|grep 8139cp". if this comes up blank, stop. if it shows the 8139cp module loaded, continue.
3. Do "rmmod 8139cp && modprobe 8139too"
4. Do "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop && /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start"

You should be good to go at this point, however you need to do somehting with /etc/modules.d/aliases to force hotplug to choose the right module to use with your NIC. I have to leave for school now and don't have to time to figure it out, unfortunately.

drgenius87 · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject:

Depending on the hardware, (i JUST had this problem) you might try recompiling the kernel to support whatever ethernet connection you had. I'm uber noob so I'm not sure whether this would be the case since you had a working connection previously, but give it a try. Just make sure that you've included Ethernet and modularized the specific driver. Recompile and presto, worked for me

cssilent · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Posts: 63

same problem here:(

donkey1984 · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 25

i did...
#find /liv/modules/kernel-2.6.3-r1/ -type f -iname '*.o' -or -iname '*.ko'

and it brought up all my modules except my nic card... (ACENIC) module... i think this might be my problem... can anyone help??

jjcv · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 7 Location: New Zealand

I have the same problem. Just upgraded hotplug and openoffice-bin. Have a via-rhine ehternet card and modules loads fine.

I use rpppoe for connecting to the net but looks like the ethernet port is dead.

jjcv · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2003 Posts: 7 Location: New Zealand

In my case the problem was caused by the update of hotplug. When I updated the config files via etc-update I must have overwritten a config file which killed my network.

I replaced /etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions with my original copy, rebooted and all was back to normal.

MacFennec · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 9:43 am Post subject:

I have the same probleme & the same insterface. Infortunately, I don't keep the old hotplug files.
You're help doesn't work for me :cry:

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MacFennec · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 10:41 am Post subject:

donkey1984 · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 25

so no one has help for my situation yet?