eth0 timed out

[redwing26]

Hi during startup I get eth0 timed out and know matter what I try I cant get a ping or anything.

my resolv.conf has nameserver <mydhcp nameservers> in it but I have tried heaps with this file

I also have a nat router unex iso50p which worked np with gentoo when I last used it, to be honest though this is a new machine and it has been a knightmare to setup , my mahines spec is at the following site top one:

http://www.autdirect.co.uk/acatalog/AMD_X2_Systems.html

my /etc/hosts file I just left at default, I even tried doing route add defauly gateway myrouters ip , excuse me if i have the command wrong its just I dont have net access on my gentoo comp so Im having to jump from one machine to the next. I can statically set my gentoo machines internally assigned router ip+gateway but it still wont connect to the net, or ping. Im trying to think back to how I got it working so easy the last time and for some reason Im thinking my routers gateway needs to go into resolv.conf but im unsure the syntax?, I have even chrooted to my system via the live cd and checked the files like resolv.conf - contained my real IPs nameservers and /etc/conf.d/net and I have tried setting things up the same but no joy. Also my specs on the above site but I dont really know specifically what parts of the kernel I should be enabling an disabling relevant to my machine, I was having trouble so I did genkernel --menuconfig all and I seleceted a shed load of stuff , that got me at least my whole system installed but this net problem isnt getting any better, so annoying considering I had a machine before with multiple eth cards and it just worked first time.

I really want to get programming again and thats 2 days wasted and I havent even started emerging kdelibs.
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[cjubon]

I suggest you've installed dhcpcd both on the client and on the router machine? If yes, either try updating it to the current version on your router or alternatively try re-emerging dhcpcd with USE flag "vram" enabled on your client machine.
If that doesn't work, please exclude any hardware issue (cables, connectors, etc.), and post the relevant output of # lspci -v (that one concerning your network card) as well as your /etc/conf.d/net.eth0.