No internet on AMD64 livecd 2004.2, 2004.1, or 2004.0

[spaceturtle]

I just got a new amd64 system using the epox 8kda3j motherboard. I read that the onboard LAN doesnt work because it uses Nforce3 250gb, so I put in my pci ethernet card and disabled my onboard lan in the bios. When I boot in to the live cd (ive tried all three 2004.0-2004.2) It loads fine, but right off the bat I cant ping anything and I cant connect to any internet site. I have tried the dhcpcd command and I know that at least on 2004.0 and .1 it finds the network card and installs the modual correctly and supposedly brings up the device (eth0) but i still get absolutely no internet or ethernet. What on earth is going on? I am so frustrated. my ethernet card is just a standard netgear card, should work fine. I am completely out of ideas.

Thanks for any help.

[gnuageux]

Hmmmm. Have you tried statically assigning a ip/netmask/gw to the card yet?
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[Cuardin]

And even before that, have you checked if the card was installed?

[torchZ06]

iirc, the livecds used the 'net-setup eth0' command to begin setting up networking on your interface. you could specify dhcp or manual configuration. it always worked for me as long as the card was detected by the kernel or had the appropriate module loaded first.

my opteron system is a asus sk8v and i fought with the onboard networking for a time because i didn't read the AMD64 Technotes where it says you have to load the sk98lin module by hand.

[spaceturtle]

In 2004.2 I run ifconfig and see that eth0 has not been installed, only my loopback device. I try to manually configure it with net-setup eth0, but both automatic detection and manual configuration do not create the device eth0. I have tried to modprobe the correct module, but it still doesnt do anything.

An even weirder problem is that in 2004.1 I got my internet working with ifconfig after some manual configuration, but when I go to format my partitions reiserfs suddenly doesnt work for the first time in history. after fdisk I type "mkreiserfs /dev/hde3" and expect it to come up with the "are you sure you want to format" message, but instead it errors saying "you are running kernel 2.6.3-gentoo-up. you need to be running kernel 2.4 or 2.2 for reiserfs to work" and then quits out without doing anything. I have never even heard of this happening before, so now I am stuck with 2004.1. Whatever.

I just want gentoo64 installed. I really dont care where from disk wise, because im just going to do a stage one install anyway. I would obviously prefer 2004.2 to work because it has support for a lot of my new hardware, but anything would be nice. Ill keep working at trying to get 2004.2 to see my and/or create eth0.

Thanks for the fast replies.

[Cuardin]

OK, lets get one thing straight before we go any further. Once your install is done there is no difference between any of the Gentoo versions unless you count the virtuals, but you don't. Gentoo does not use versions. It uses profiles, but as said, the diference between any of the versions released the last couple of years is verging on non-existant.
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[shai200]

at startup i get:
* Bringing eth0 via dhcp.. [!!]
* ERROR: Problem starting needed services
"netmojnt" was not started

i'm sure that the problem is somewhere in the configurations, but i cannot find where.
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when i run ifconfig i get:

[Cuardin]

What network card are you using and did you load the module for it?
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[gnuageux]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/202934

Same issue there and below

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=293394
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