Unable to bring up eth0

crevette · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 6:50 am Post subject: Unable to bring up eth0

I know it will be difficult to help me but, Gentoo can't bring me up eth0.
I use a "yesterday built" Gentoo 1.4rc1, so it's a fresh install
I have a Realtek 8139. the driver is built-in the kernel.
I'm connected to the net with dhcp (I use cable with a small router/modem).
I don't know why it doesn't work, because my Gentoo 1.1a worked successfully.

What can I do to check what happen (I did a dmesg, but there is no error message but "Failed to bring eth0 up !!" .

Help me please because I'm lost and I can update my Gentoo.

Thanks
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taskara · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 7:46 am Post subject:

did you set your eth0 to use dhcp in /etc/conf.d/net file ? should look like this:

crevette · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 7:41 pm Post subject:

Yes I did that.
but now it works, very strange......
I booted and I said eth0 not bring up and after 5 minutes it's works.
Perhaps a FAI dhcpd related problem??

Who knows.......
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taskara · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 12:56 am Post subject:

if it works, don't question! :lol:

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crevette · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 8:48 am Post subject: Really Weird

It's not solved because after 15 minutes about I loose my IP address. I'm obligled to do dhcpd again,... perhaps a deamon problem????
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taskara · Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 4:58 am Post subject:

hmmm I use this same nic, and I don' thave this problem.. perhaps it's a problem with the dhcp server ? or perhaps it's the settings you enabled for the realtek chipset in your kernel ??
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rain · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 5:22 am Post subject:

I had this problem after enabling the "~x86" unmasking for portage. It had updated dhcpcd to 1.3.22_p3, I just downgraded to 1.3.20_p0-r1 and it fixed it. I use a DEC Tulip based NIC so I don't think the card is the problem.