eth0 prob

[BCVisin]

I have a laptop with the SiS 900-based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter. I have done a little looking around, and have seen my problem, but am having trouble finding answers. Gentoo recoginses the adapter, but no matter what, I can't get lan. I am brand new to gentoo, and heard great things, but I am not sure if I can set it up on my laptop if I can't get my eth0 card working. If anyone knows any solutions, or could point me to the right topics, that would be exelent.

Thanks for your time,
Blake

[flyinspirit001]

exactely what you did for check your card? a modprobe or the net card is built-in?
after that did you correctely configured /etc/conf.d/net ?
do you use dhcp or not?

thanks

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[benc_4]

This might not be the same problem, but I had an issue where my motherboard had integrated 1394 and the gentoo live cd was automatically detecting it and making it eth0, but it wasn't listed under ifconfig because it was never successfully started. So I kept trying to edit conf.d/net for eth0 but it turned out when I was using modprobe it was making my actual ethernet adapter eth1. So then a net-setup eth1 took care of my problems.

After booting, try doing an lsmod and see if 1394eth or something to that effect is listed. If it is, then try setting up your ethernet adapter as eth1 and see if you have any luck. If this is the problem you should just be able to boot off the cd and do a

[BCVisin]

Thanks, when I print lsmod, it gives me:

[benc_4]

[BCVisin]

router, with DHCP. Works fine on laptop with XP, but not for gentoo.

[benc_4]

Can you post the contents of your /etc/conf.d/net file?

also, I don't have my gentoo box in front of me, can you post the results of:

[BCVisin]

ok, so in here only 1 line doesn't have # in front of it, and I think that means it is the only line that is read in the file. it is:
iface_eth0="192.168.0.2 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"

next,

[benc_4]

[nixnut]

If you want to use dhcp comment out the line iface_eth0="192.168.0.2 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" and remove the # in front of the line iface_eth0="dhcp".
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[BCVisin]

modprobe sis900 worked fine

lsmod showed the same as before, no change at all.

[benc_4]

do me a favor, I'm not positive this will work but it should if the modprobe seems to work fine, if you tried changing iface_eth0 to iface_eth0="dhcp" make sure you restart the eth0 by running

[BCVisin]

wow, it worked
eth1, same prob as you!

so I just did a net-setup eth1, and se it to dhcp and it worked!
Not sure why though, any ideas?

[nixnut]

[benc_4]

As you can see the above link was my original problem, I finally figured out what was going on by going through a log that showed each item as it was setup during the booting of the cd, I can't remember the name of the log now, maybe someone with more experience can post the name of where you would find it for future troubleshooting. I just kept doing a grep for eth0 in the logs I could find and I eventually found a log that had eth1394 and eth0 on the same line. Also, there was an entry in a log under /var/log/?? I think it was called 'current' or 'complete' or something like that and it had an entry with e1000, (my network module), and eth1.

If anyone knows the name of the first log I'm referring to please post it, I meant to write it down so I could check it in the future for troubleshooting.

[nixnut]