eth0 fails on boot

linedpaper · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:58 am Post subject: eth0 fails on boot

I just finished installing everything and I obviously screwed up somewhere because my nic is failing. Here is what I get.

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: Unknown interface: No such device
*Failed to bring eth0 up
* "netmount" was not started

Any help would be great. I can't do anything without the net. I haven't gotten a gui yet so...I'm stuck.

Tim

guero61 · l33t Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 811 Location: Behind you

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47746&start=17

linedpaper · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:27 am Post subject:

Alright here we go. I recompiled my kernel a few times because I realized I forgot to include support for my nic card. Currentlyit has module support. Should I just compile it into the kernel? I tired it both ways and I still get the following error.

Error: Problem starting needed services
"netmount" was not started

and my eth0 fails to start. It is run off the module 8139too or at least it was when I used the gentoo live cd. And it obviously worked fine there If I am as far as I am. I just need help getting my nic up so I can finish up my install.

Tim

dragonx · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 62

I had the same problem. Check the earlier post on this thread. My problem was the APIC. Make sure that your module is in the /etc/modules.autoload file.

linedpaper · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 4:22 am Post subject:

My nic is compiled into the kernel it is not a module. It still comes up with this
Error: Problem starting needed services
"netmount" was not started

what the hell is wrong. I've tried everything I can think of and I don't know what to do. Please help!

dragonx · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 62

When I was having that problem, I re-compiled the kernel so that my nic was a module. That was the only way it worked. Thats after the noapic argument in grub and the nic module added to modules.autoload. Is you nic an onboard nic or pci card?

T w i z t i D · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 50

I'm having same problem, eth0 works fine from LiveCD, but on boot, can't start it. I also built ethernet into my kernel (not a module), although admittedly, i don't know what that means. I'm using a NetGear PCI ethernet card, and I don't know which driver to use....can someone please help me?

linedpaper · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 5:02 am Post subject:

My nic is not onboard. It is pci. I did all that now I put it in the autoload and I get this error message way before the eth0 fails. It says the following:
Error loading 8139too

It is failing to load my driver. Do I need to go find the driver and copy it somehwere. Maybe the driver isn't where it needs to be. Where should it be and where is it by default?

Tim

linedpaper · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:13 am Post subject:

I threw in a different nic card that ran off of e100 driver on a different gentoo machine and everything booted just fine. I know it isn't the most stable, but I didn't even have to recompile the kernel to get it to work. Just thought I would let the others who are having trouble know. Maybe there is some sort of bug in the coding for the 8139too driver?

Tim

A-star · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 43

Read this post:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47746&start=17

It explains what you have to do.
Worked for me like a charm

linedpaper · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 4:58 pm Post subject:

Everyone keeps posting a link to that thread, the problem is that I did all that and it still didn't work. Maybe it was just a bad card...it worked fine in windows though. Anyhow I know have an intel card in there anyways.

Tim

guero61 · l33t Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 811 Location: Behind you

It doesn't have to be one of those three card types; they were representative of those that have had the most problems.

I spent two weeks stuck with vanilla-sources-2.4.20 because of this. If your 8139too driver does not work with the 8139too card you have, either your NIC is dead or you're not following the [twice] linked instructions properly.

I promise you, I spent days examining diff's of source code, following debugger output, and running network sniffers. There is a ACPI/APIC patch that is applied to the gentoo-sources-2.4.20 kernel and is inherent in the 2.5.x kernels that beyond any shadow of a doubt interferes with the proper operation of certain NIC's. ACPI seems to be the more common fix, followed by APIC.