No eth after installation (2.6.9)

Heliode · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject: No eth after installation (2.6.9)

Hey,

I've just finished installing Gentoo on my new PC, but after the first reboot it won't detect my network card. (when I do 'ifconfig' I only see 'lo')

Information:

I installed from Knoppix 3.6 so I wouldn't have to download the 2004.3 live cd. During installation the eth worked fine.
Furthermore, I chose the gentoo-dev-sources, which I compiled with Genkernel.

The network card is an onboard one, on a motherboard with Intel chipset (judging from lspci, its the 8286 chipset, and the ethernet controller is a VIA technologies VT6105 [Rhine-III] rev 8b).

If there are any modules I still have to compile, I can do so from knoppix after chrooting into the Gentoo enviroment. However, i'm still pretty much a noob at 'linux stuff' so I have no idea what I should do to fix this. During installation I tried emerging 'e100' but that generated an error that I sadly forgot to write down.

I can't wait to run Gentoo again on my new PC, so if anyone could be of any help it would be greatly appreciated!
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Joggl · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject:

what happen when you type

Heliode · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:

That worked, thanks!
Now i've got the problem of Xorg configure aborting on me after signal 11 (??) but thats a different topic...
As far as the Eth is concerned; I can't believe it was that easy... any chance I could have figured that out by myself...?

Thanks again!
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Really still a n00b with a square under his name

Spec hightlights:
Pentium IV 3000 mhz HT
1024 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Logitech MX1000
And a total of 520 GB of HD space

Joggl · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:17 am Post subject:

oh yes, no problem:

just add "via-rhine" to your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x

Gentree · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject:

Moderators, devs , please can we have a sticky on this , and get the user-guide on the CD ISOs to give instructions that are upto date and accurate.

This has been catching ppl out for over two weeks , this issue alone must be putting a load on the servers and bloating the forums.

Thanks.

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jwmiii · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Maryland

I too don't have eth0 after reboot from initial stage1 install. I had to 'modprobe via-rhine' during boot from live cd, but saw no instructions how to compile/install this module. I tried copying it from the cd, but I get an 'invalid module format' when I try to modprobe in the installed system. Thanks for any help.

Joggl · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:25 am Post subject:

you have to activate it in your kernel

somewhere in
device drivers > Networking support > Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) > Via Rhine support

activate this with <M>

and then do