[SOLVED] eth0 eth1 not found

0x001A4 · Last edited by 0x001A4 on Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:22 am; edited 1 time in total

I'm installing Gentoo through Fedora Core 6 and FC6 says that my network card is eth1 (I have an onboard network adapter). The network card is a D-Link DFE 538TX and the module I need to add to the kernel is RTL8139. I've added that and booted up gentoo for the first time with eth0 on the default runlevel, but when it booted, it said eth0 does not exist. So I figured maybe it was eth1. So I added eth1 to the default runlevel but when I booted up I got the same results.
Any suggestions?

Moriah · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject:

2 things to do first: ifconfig -a and lspci, and post the output here. You may have to emerge pciutils if you do not already have lspci.
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venquessa2 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 283

I smell module problems.

If you used genkernel then make sure you have coldplug in the boot runlevel.

You can intermediately try

/etc/init.d/coldplug restart

then try

ifconfig eth0 172.23.24.25/24
ifconfig eth1 172.23.26.25/24

If that works you should be in business by adding coldplug to boot

rc-update add coldplug boot

If you compiled the Kernel yourself, make sure and compile in the PCI 10/100Mbit drivers for Realtek 8139.
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0x001A4 · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:22 am Post subject:

well after doing an lspci i realized that the driver was actually not the rtl8139 (even though thats still what FC6 is using) but rather VIA. interesting. Thanks for the help!