Ugh so close! no network card

[LostGen]

Well I finally got my gentoo built. As it is booting it says it could not setup eth0. I check for eth0 and there is no device for it. I reboot with the live cd and it finds the network card with a driver called 'skge'. Soooo how do I tell my fresh install of gentoo that it should use the skge driver when it boots up so that I have a network card?


Any ideas would be helpful,

Thanks everyone,

Lostgen

[msalerno]

Did you build the the option into the kernel or as a module?

What kernel are you using?

[LostGen]

The kernel is 2.6.11-gentoo-r6.

This is one of my first ever attempts at building a gentoo kernel. I dont remember adding it as a module or into the kernel. Is it possible to go back and do this?


LG

[msalerno]

Absolutely,

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

Here's the rest:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7

Device Drivers --->
Networking support --->
Ethernet (1000 Mbit) --->
New SysKonnect GigaEthernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)

[LostGen]

Excellent I will give this a shot right away!

Thanks for all the help!

LG:D

[LostGen]

That worked great, but now I have a new smaller problem.

As gentoo finishes booting it up it says my gateway can not be reached. If I type in ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 and route add default gw 192.168.1.1, everything works fine.

I checked my /etc/conf.d/net file and it looks like this.

iface_eth0="192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0"
gateway="eth0/192.168.1.1"
iface_eth0="up"

Any ideas on whyt his is falling apart when it boots?

Thanks

LG

[erik258]

The commands you typed that worked manually suggest that your config file is right, unless there's a type-o there or something. But are you actually starting the network services with an 'rc-update add net.eth0 default' ? Without something like that your network configuration in /etc/conf.d/net will never actually be used.

[rabarkar]

Well, I think this problem is similiar to the one I'm facing. I'm triying to install gentoo in a brand new Toshiba Satellite M45, with comes with a Marvell Yukon network card. I've installed the driver available in http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/zip/linux/install-8_16.tar.bz2, and everything worked rigth (just in appearence), that means, I got a eth0 interface, and the hardware seemed to be completly recognized.

The problem appeared when I configure the interface in /etc/conf.d/net, using static IP or DHCP, the interface don't work at all!!! I seems as if they where not cable connected to the port.

I think this is a hardware problem, I'm not sure, if someone of you have some advice, it would be gratefully apreciated.

Thanks in advance!!

[erik258]

You might want to look into the UberLord's wireless config HOWTO, I've heard good things about it. I don't think wireless is exactly the same as ethernet... But more appropriately, what have you done, and what haven't you done, as far as "getting it working?" what's your "ifconfig -a" output? have you 'emerge wireless-tools' yet? and if so, is iwconfig noticing your wireless card? And if so, have you tried "dhcpcd eth0" ? that works for me. And if not, please give us more info. to help diagnose your problem.

At any rate, you'll need to emerge wireless-tools to be able to configure your network; once you do, you can use 'iwlist scan' to scan for wireless networks and see if the 'cable' really is down! ; - }

PS It's almost certianly not a hardware problem. Everyone thinks their hardware is broken at first, but I've yet to see a post saying so which isn't later corrected to read, "until i tried it out in XP " or, in my case, "Until i got it working!" I'm sure your wireless hardware is just fine.