RaspberryPi unable to get net.eth0 to start at boot [SOLVED]

njcwotx · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 587 Location: Texas

Just got my first Gentoo RaspberryPI up and going. Its booting up fine. However, I have tried both:

rc-update add net.eth0 default
rc-update add net.eth0 boot

and neither works. I will reboot and the nic does not start. However, I can run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start after logging in and getting the nic to work and passing traffic.

/etc/runlevels/default/net.eth0 symlink is there and is correct.
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njcwotx · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 587 Location: Texas

self resolved.

I had symlinked net.lo per wiki and usual instructions. I removed symlink /etc/init.d/net.eth0 > net.lo and copied net.lo to net.eth0 and system came up with the nic.
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Schnitzel · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 39

thanks for hint..got the same problem

52midnight · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:57 am Post subject:

Thanks for the post - had the same problem. However, the fix did not work for me, and I got errors onscreen during the boot process. Using:

># dmesg|less

and searching for 'eth0' revealed a line saying:

udevd[154]: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

Not sure why, but reconfiguring using eth1 got things working.

gerrit_hoekstra · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:19 pm Post subject:

chiefbag · Guru Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 542 Location: The Kingdom

Things may have gotten messed up in udev, perhaps this was a stage4 or cross compiled on another machine.

Removing the entry and rebooting should default your interface to eth0.

gerrit_hoekstra · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:12 pm Post subject:

The content of the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules varies on the MAC address of the eth0-device. So lifting-and-shifting an SDCard with this file from one PI (model B) to another causes it to be "non-compatible" on the new device. The UDEV service adds another line to this file for eth1-device, eth2-device and so on every time the SDCard is inserted to new PI.

Is there a way to fix UDEV's behaviour to rather replace the existing line, so that I always have just eth0 when I insert the SDCard into a new PI? Or is the only solution to summarily remove the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file every time the PI boots?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:16 pm Post subject:

gerrit_hoekstra,

You can remove the file with a script in /etc/local.d/
See the readme there.

Hint: you want a file called *.stop, so its run on shutdown.
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