Network card is not detected

pwaring · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 99

I'm currently trying to install Gentoo 2004.1 using the minimal install disk (i.e. installing over a network rather than from the CD). However, the LiveCD hasn't detected my network card, net-setup eth0 doesn't work either (when I tell it to get the information via DHCP) and trying to modprove via-rhine (the correct driver for my NIC) gives no errors but when I run ifconfig eth0 the machine still doesn't have an IP address. I didn't disable DHCP when I booted, and Ii know my router is working fine because I could access the net via the two previous installations of different Linux distributions that I had on the same machine.

Does anyone know how to get around this problem? I can't go any further until I know my network card is working.

Voltago · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject:

This is what you do:
1. Start your machine
2. Look at 'dmesg' output
3. modprobe via-rhine
4. Look at 'dmesg' output again, post the difference

pwaring · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 99

That's weird, for some reason my NIC is detected as eth1 on Gentoo, but I'm sure it was always eth0 under Fedora. I wish they would damn well standardise on always using eth0 for the NIC...

Problem solved.