adsl little problem

[Quad Machine]

i have DSL modem which connects to my ethernet card
i configured pppoe-setup, and when i use pppoe-start it says .... TIMED OUT

i configured /etc/conf.d/net like this:
config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.0.255" )
routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.0.1 )
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_eth0="nonis"

and when i try:
mladen2500 init.d # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
/etc/conf.d/net: line 4: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/etc/conf.d/net: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file
* Starting eth0
* Bringing up eth0
* 192.168.0.2
* eth0 does not exist [ !! ]
mladen2500 init.d #

do i need to change device name or what? btw while configuring kernel i selected support for pppoe and 10/100mbit ethernet
plz hlp, THX

[Philantrop]

[Quad Machine]

i fixed the " and now i get this:

mladen2500 ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* Starting eth0
* Bringing up eth0
* dhcp
* eth0 does not exist

[Philantrop]

Please post the output of

[Quad Machine]

In your kernel you did activate support for your specific NIC, right? Provided you did: If you configured it as a module - did you load the module?

what's a NIC?

i tried ifconfig eth0 - says error fetching dev information:Device not found

ifconfig says:
Link encap: Local loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTO:16436 Metric:1
RX packets: 40errors :0 dropped :0 overruns :0 carriers :0 collisions :0 txqueuelen
RX bytes 3280 (3,2kB)
TX bytes 3280 (3,2kB)

lspci says
...
00:04.0 Ethernet controller nVidia Corporation nForce Ethernet controller (rev a1)
...
(I didnt rewrite the whole text, i believe this is the part ur looking for )

any idea whats the problem?

[Philantrop]

NIC = Network Interface Card.

Which driver did you configure for your nForce Ethernet controller? (There's a reverse-engineered nForce driver in recent kernels.) Did you compile into the kernel itself or as a module? If as a module: Is it loaded (lsmod)?

And, yes, that lspci line was the one I needed. :-) Thanks.

So far it seems obvious for me that either

a) you forgot to compile the driver,
b) you chose the wrong driver,
c) didn't load the compiled kernel module,
d) the driver simply fails for your NIC which could be the case from what I've seen on the net about the nForce NIC.

I think we'll get to the bottom of this issue once you answered my above question. What I cannot promise is that we'll get this NIC going. Linux support for it seems to be far from optimal.

[Quad Machine]

i'm using 2.6.16-r7 kernel, during manual configuration of the kernel i looked for nvidia ethernet card but i haven't seen any named nvidia, but some card was selected by default (my pc is emerging kde at the time so i can't tell you exactly which, i think it starts with an R though)!
so i compiled with those drivers, and they're probably no good, but where are the nvidia drivers? if i had saw them i would have selected them...

hope u know what i'm talking about, greetz

[Monkeh]

The default selection was probably a Realtek one, they're incredibly common. What you want is under 10/100 (not gigabit, which is what your card is technically capable of), it's called forcedeth. Compile that in.

[Quad Machine]

What you want is under 10/100 (not gigabit, which is what your card is technically capable of), it's called forcedeth. Compile that in.

i'll try, what does it do, doesn't sound nice LOL forcedeth...

[Quad Machine]

SOLVED, apparently I was blind and didn't see the nvidia drivers, emerged them and now all is working fine,
anyway thx for your help
HAIL