automatic networking fails, but manual works

tliou

Hi,

I just finished installing gentoo-2.6.9-r4. It works well except that the network fails to come up. I get this message which others have reported:

Bringing eth0 up via DHCP... [!!]

and this one:

"netmount" was not started.

If I then run modprobe e1000, the network just comes right up. My problem (which is likely to be trivial) is that I cannot get the network to come up automatically.

I'm sure I'm missing something simple. Anyone care to help?

jmusits · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:05 am Post subject:

Have you added your ethernet card to the modules to autoload @ boot?

If not just do this:

tliou · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:50 am Post subject:

Dear Jason,

Thank you much, you've likely saved me hours. I thought I had done that but I hadn't. However, it didn't quite work. I added e1000 as suggested:

# echo 'e1000' >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

After reboot, the error messages were gone, but "ping" didn't work. So I issued the command ifconfig and got:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:60:FE:19:D4
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:460 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:86151 (84.1 Kb) TX bytes:594 (594.0 b)
Base address:0x8000 Memory:c0220000-c0240000

lo ....

The line that usually starts inet... was missing. If I then issued the command ifconfig eth0, everything worked:

eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:60:FE:19:D4
inet addr:(xxx.xxx.xxx.xx) Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2299 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2299 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:325325 (317.7 Kb) TX bytes:1846 (1.8 Kb)
Base address:0x8000 Memory:c0220000-c0240000

(where xxx.xxx.xxx.xx is a real address that I've suppressed to avoid inviting an attack.)

Any last hints? Thanks in advance.