[solved] Lost ability to connect to internet? eth0 no start

[Negated Void]

Hello!

My friend has a tyan k8w motherboard that we're reasonably sure uses teh tg3 driver. He's had the internet and stuff working for a while.

He was emerge -u world'ing earlier when i had him reboot becuase he got a nvidia module version mismatch running something. Recompiled that, and the kernel so he could use the xpad driver.

Upon boot, his eth0 failed to start.

We moved his config to a newer kernel version, changed the linux symlink, built it, and booted into it. no better.

So I then had him install all the gigabit cards as compiled in. Just because i might have somehow been wrong with which driver to use (I was helping him over the phone - he lives far away). Booted into that.

Same thing.

Now - he can manually run dhcpcd and get an ip address, ping google, etc. but eth0 still won't start.

I'm not sure how well it keeps that IP address either.

His windows partition works fine.

His /etc/cond.d/net has only that line that tells the iface to use dhcp.

Any ideas what I should try / what could have happened?

--Matt

[fangorn]

Is it possible the board has a firewire port, which gets detected before the ehternet nic?

If you have support for ip over ieee1394 in the kernel this device will get recognized as eth0.

Try starting net.eth1.

(If necessary create a link from net.eth0)

[Negated Void]

Copied net.eth0 to net.eth1, added a dhcp line /etc/conf.d/net

started it, failed. Something about no modules that supply dhcp (i'm doing this logn distance.. )

[Negated Void]

running dhcpcd manually does give him internet access.

so if you need him to paste something in .. just ask

[tecla]

I had the same problem last week.
You mast delete /etc/init.d/net.eth0
Make a symlink from /etc/inti.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo

[Negated Void]

"put your /etc/init.d/net.eth0 in /etc/conf.d/net."

.. what exactly do you mean by putting that in there?

[Negated Void]

he got "Could not start service net.lo" or somesuch.

[tecla]

sorry its a typo. I have my mind in other "world".
Sorry again, the phrase must be:
"put your eth0 config in /etc/conf.d/net"

In my gentooAMD64 last week I ran "emerge -uva world" and a new bash (between others) was emerged.
This new package changes the way the network starts.
Now, the /etc/init.d/net.ethX is a symlink to net.lo and not a copy of another net.ethX.
The old net.ethX may not work at all.
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Jesus Garcia Grande

[Negated Void]

dispatch-conf was our saviour. Thanks for the advice.