8139 network woes

[Ginja_Ninja]

Hi,

i am trying to install gentoo 2004.3 stage 1. We boot the gentoo kernel off the cd and it finds the card and loads the module (8139too) , but it wont talk to my router. I tried net-setup eth0 and told it to use dhcp, but it wont pick up an ip address.

Any ideas ??, i am tearing my hair out !


Thanks

G_N

[iainvt]

try at commoand promt

#modprobe r8169

and work off dhcp by uncommenting the following

iface_eth0="dhcp"

make sure everything else in /etc/conf.d/net is commented out with a # if I remember correctly one of the ip lines is uncommented by default so double check.
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iain