nic problem: eth0 vanishes

schorsch79 · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 27

hello gentoo users!
i've problems with my nic on my hp omnibook laptop. it's a 8139 realtek chip. nothing special. there is a dhcp client running as well.

after my gentoo install (everything worked fine) i restarted the system and tried to emerge kde. but after a while the download process of a packet was stuck and after a ctrl-c i tried ifconfig and there was no eth0 anymore. i have to add that at that time the laptop was very hot.

i retried after some time and it worked again, but next time it didn't and so on. at the beginning there is a eth0 but without ip address and after a while it vanishes completely (ifconfig). i have to reboot the system in order to get the nic working.

now my question is what kind of error this could be. to me it seems more like a hw problem. or is it possible that it has to do with the dhcp or the nic module or acpi? any suggestions appreciated! thank you, georg

JensZ · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 339 Location: Freiburg

is anything logged? in dmesg or something like that?

schorsch79 · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 27

no, it isn't. at the moment it works fine. not on every start it behaves like this. next time it runs i'll check it.

but there's a thing i'm worried about. the fan always remains on the lowest level even if i compile kde... shouldn't be like this, especially because it's quite warm here...

do you know if it has something to do with acpi?
georg

nadamsieee · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:13 am Post subject:

My mobo has an integrated 8139 ethernet device. Everything was detected when I booted from the CD, but eth0 would die when I ran ifconfig. Still haven't figured out why.

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schorsch79 · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 27

ok, i've found now by my self the explanation: if you have configured eth0 as dhcp interface, it will be removed. i don't know why! but if you run dhcpcd as root it will appear again.