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vPat
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 Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: "eth0 does not exist" |
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I have just finished installing Gentoo on my Inspiron 1300, I folowed the handbook and everything works fine. But when i boot it says "eth0 does not exist", also when i try to start it my self (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start) it also says the same thing.
modprobe b44 dosnt spit out any errors and the module seems to load fine. But lspci dosnt show anything at all, it just exits  , lsmod also shows the module loaded fine.
Thanks,
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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vPat,
Try this
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vPat
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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I loaded every module that was present on the live CD and not one was the right drive. Most of them failed.
Here is the lsmod output from the Live CD
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ipv6 236096 6
pcspkr 4684 0
rtc 9876 0
tsdev 8128 0
joydev 10176 0
b44 22660 0
mii 6016 1 b44
intel_agp 22172 1
agpgart 34768 1 intel_agp
snd_hda_intel 16864 1
snd_hda_codec 53376 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 84356 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 24836 1 snd_pcm
snd 54628 6
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 10500 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i8xx_tco 8348 0
dm_mirror 22748 0
dm_mod 55076 1 dm_mirror
ata_piix 10244 0
ahci 12164 0
sata_qstor 10372 0
sata_vsc 8964 0
sata_uli 8192 0
sata_sis 8064 0
sata_sx4 14340 0
sata_nv 10244 0
sata_via 9348 0
sata_svw 8452 0
sata_sil 9988 0
sata_promise 11652 0
libata 44548 12
ata_piix,ahci,sata_qstor,sata_vsc,sata_uli,sata_sis,sata_sx4,sata_nv,sata_via,sata_svw,sata_sil,sata_promise
sbp2 23432 0
ohci1394 33460 0
ieee1394 96344 2 sbp2,ohci1394
sl811_hcd 13568 0
ohci_hcd 20612 0
uhci_hcd 30992 0
usb_storage 67520 0
usbhid 41184 0
ehci_hcd 29960 0
usbcore 110716 7
sl811_hcd,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd
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The module for my network card is b44 and its loaded on my laptop, its also loaded on the LiveCD.
I got the right module name from here.
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Abraxa
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:34 am Post subject: |
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What does dmesg say?
Also, do you have coldplug installed? If not, you might wanna try installing it - it solved my "eth0 does not exist" woes a lot of times and it's a good thing to have either way.
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vPat
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: |
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I think i have worked out the source of all my issues, pcmcia wasnt starting at boot. It was failing as some kernel modules were missing. Iam trying to fix that now.
.Pat
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mrcs
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:47 am Post subject: |
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I have an Inspiron 8600c with a Broadcom card, compiled the driver in the kernel as a module, installed coldplug, rebooted and it worked like a charm.
You could try the driver from Broadcoms web site and see if that works. |
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vPat
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: |
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When i try to start pcmcia it says, "cardmgr[6443]: no sockets found!". Then goes on to say that it failed to start and make sure uoi have the PCMCIA modules or built in support compiled into the kernel.
I have enabled everything in the PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus Support) part of my kernel so it should work, any idears ?
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vPat
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: |
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When playing around in my kernel config i found "32-bit CardBus support" cant be selected but in the gentoo handbook it says to select this. Could this be a cause of the issues iam having ?.
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Abraxa
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Yeah, that seems likely... as about why you can't select it...
| Code: | │ Symbol: CARDBUS [=y] │
│ Prompt: 32-bit CardBus support │
│ Defined at drivers/pcmcia/Kconfig:86 │
│ Depends on: PCCARD && PCI │
│ Location: │
│ -> Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) │
│ -> PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support │
│ -> PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support (PCCARD [=m]) │
│ Selected by: YENTA && PCCARD && PCI && !EMBEDDED |
...maybe you have EMBEDDED selected by chance?
-Soeren |
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