help asap please: netmount, no eth0

wkethman · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 71

I have been lookig on the forums and I believe that there might be a few reasons why I dont see the internet anymore.
I started a download of KDE it was installing and mid-install it messed up and said couldnt download so I ran ifconfig and determined that my eth0 was not running anymore. I think I might have forgot to copy over dns information and in this case how do I go back after I have chrooted the environment and another problem that could be causing this problem is that when my system boots I get an error:
Error: Problem starting needed services "netmount" was not started.
How do I fix this and get it back and running. Now that I have started installing KDE but it cancelled once i get my network up and running will i just be able to emerge KDE again?
I just want to get my internet back. It worked with the cd but no long does.
Thanks

wkethman · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 71

bump, please help someone

gnat79 · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject:

I'm having the same exact problem. I just installed Gentoo, got the kernel to stop panicking on reboot, and now I get the message

Error: Problem starting needed services; Netmount was not started

So, I don't have any connection and I can't continue with my install until I get it back.

Any help would be appreciated.

I plan on scouring the forums and will post here if I find anything out.

Thanks

Ok, so I looked in /var/log/messages and found this line right before I had a problem with netmount:

dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device

About the netmount thing; I read that it depends on the connection being started, so that would explain why netmount doesn't start. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

That's all for the moment...
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stickboy2642 · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject:

It sounds to me like you need to load the module for your ethernet card. The kernel is not finding the hardware

If you know what ethernet module you need, type the following and see if it is in the list:

gnat79 · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the help. However, I'm still stuck.

My board is a Biostar M7NCD Ultra with an nVidia nForce2 LAN

I checked all this from the livecd using lspci -v

I did lsmod from the livecd to see what it loads (I have a connection from the livecd) and the only one that looks like it could be an ethernet module is forcedeth.

I tried find that after rebooting and didn't see it with lsmod, nor could I modprobe it by doing modprobe forcedeth.

So, I'm still stuck. I guess I just really don't know what to enable in my kernel. I built it from stage2 and had some trouble getting the hard drive recognized. I got that working, and now I'm stuck here.

....Later on

I found where someone else with the same board used the forcedeth module for his nic, so I am pretty sure that's what I need. I can't find it anywhere in the kernel config menu. Any help on that? If I can get the module in there I think I will have it fixed.

Thanks
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ThePsychotic2k · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 56 Location: Bristol

Hi,

I also use the forcedeth module for my on board LAN, its under Device Drivers->Networking Support->Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)->Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)

I have it compiled as a module and therefore have "forcedeth" in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 but I don't know of any reason you can't have it actually compiled into your kernel if you want to.

After that is loaded look at your dmesg to see if you get a eth0 device.

Dan.
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gnat79 · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject:

You are awesome! I'm going to compile it in right now......
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gnat79 · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

After compiling it into the kernel, installing and module installing, reboot gives the same message as posted above.

Is there any reason why I can't compile it in? Do I have to have it as a module?

Is there any way to check to see if it's actually using forcedeth, if it's compiled in the kernel?

Are there any other drivers this device might rely on?

Thanks again for the help. Maybe I'll get this thing working sometime... :-(

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ThePsychotic2k · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 56 Location: Bristol

This is one reason I like to compile things I can as a module, so I can use lsmod to see if its loaded correctly.
remember if it compiled as a module you either have to type

gnat79 · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:55 am Post subject:

Ok, I still have the same problem. I've checked everything. I guess I'll recompile it as a module and then I can do some lsmod stuff.

That will only take a few minutes, I hope.
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gnat79 · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:10 am Post subject:

Ok, I recompiled and there is no module called forcedeth to be found with modprobe... do I have to give it a path name or can I just do

stickboy2642 · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject:

You should be able to just type modprobe forcedeth to get it to work.

Just to be sure, after you recompiled your kernel, you mounted your /boot directory and copied all of the files over, and then re-ran grub (or lilo)? If not, then you will still be running on the old kernel, although you should still be able to modprobe the module. Also, if you have more than one kernel image on the machine, make sure you are booting into the one that you just built.

What output do you get when you type ifconfig -a? What interfaces does it show? Do you see any other interfaces in there besides lo?

gnat79 · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

I can't check right now, I'm at work. I'll get it in a few hours, so check back please! Thanks!
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gnat79 · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject:

ifconfig - a just shows lo

I'm pretty sure that I'm using the right kernel and all. I ran

gnat79 · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:08 am Post subject:

Well, I'm all messed up now. I have redone a lot of stuff, and it's all messed up. Somehow I have two grub.conf files now.. I think I can get my bro to help me straighten some of this out; I think the problem is somehow I'm not compiling/installing correctly. So, if that's all it is, then I hope he will know what I'm doing or will be able to look at it and see.

I'll post back WHEN I have a solution.
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gnat79 · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject:

Ok, so in the process of "fixing" my kernel, I was messing around when I hadn't mounted the boot partition; I ended up with a bunch of stuff in the boot directory which confused me. I believe I fixed that by cleaning out the boot directory, mounting the partition and checking to see that everything there looks right. It does, so I rebooted.

The forcedeth modulue doesn't autoload yet, so I loaded it with

stickboy2642 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject:

Well, you are very close now. Eth0 is coming up like it should and is looking for a dhcp server to automatically give it an IP address. It is erroring out because it can't find a DHCP server that will give it an address. If you don't have one, or for some reason it can't be found by your install, then it is going to fail. In this case, you can specify an IP address manually in /etc/conf.d/net and then restart eth0. This should bring up the interface.

gnat79 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:

When it looks for the "DHCP" server, do you mean that it is looking for something like dhcpcd on my machine which will give it the IP address, or does it look at the connection through the router for the IP address? I have a Linksys 10/100, 8 port workgroup switch hooked to a sprint DSL box. Last time I configured it I thought that dhcpcd worked. Maybe I've messed that up in all the stuff that I've done. I'm not sure how to find the IP address to specify in /etc/conf.d/net.

Thanks

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stickboy2642 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject:

Well, in most cases, it would try and talk to the sprint DSL modem to get the IP address. It should not have a problem finding this through your switch. Some things to check though... First off, make sure that your ethernet cable is plugged in on both ends and that the cable is good. When you plug the cable into the switch, you should see a light come on. This means that there is a link between your network card and the switch. If you do not see this, try changing cables and see if that fixes the problem.

Do you have any other machines connected to your switch? If so, what OS do they have installed? How are they configured to connect to the network?
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gnat79 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:

We have several work computers hooked up; they all have Windows XP on them.

I pulled up the details on this connection for my work computer and this is what it says:

IP Address: 192.168.1.34
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server: 192.168.1.1
DNS Server: 192.168.1.1

Maybe it should be something like this in my /etc/conf.d/net file:

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gnat79 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject:

It seems that

bps7j · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject:

Try running

gnat79 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject:

Ok, so all I had to change in my /etc/conf.d/net file was: