Not recognizing my network card

redbaron16 · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:55 pm Post subject: Not recognizing my network card

I used genkernel to compile and build vanilla-sources for me, and did the things to make it recognize my hardware on bootup like the live-cd. However it is not recognizing my network card, but it does when i boot of the cd.

My network card is built-in with my mother board, and it is a sis900.
in my /etc/conf.d/net
iface_eth0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5"

in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4
i added sis900

but it still doesnt recognize it, any ideas?

ozonator · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:45 pm Post subject:

Are you sure the module is being loaded? Did you compile the sis900 support as a module, or did you build it into the kernel? What's the output of /sbin/lsmod?

Also, what's the output of /sbin/ifconfig -a?

redbaron16 · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:09 pm Post subject:

the output os /sbin/lsmod

usb-storage 0 unused
usb-ohci 0 unused
echi-hcd 0 unused
usbocre 1 usb-storage usb-ohci ehci-hcd
sis900 0

since iused genkernel to complile my kernel i didnt specify wether to add is as module.... i didnt think i had to i though it did it for me
and in /sbin/

eql i dont think eql is importat at the moment but if it is just tell me and i will reply withit next time

but for eth0

Link encap:Ethernet then my hardware address
Broadcase Multicast MTU:1500 Meteric :1
RX Packets all 0
TX packets all 0
Collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytres:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)
Interruprt:10 Base address :0xd400

ozonator · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:30 am Post subject:

It looks like the sis900 module has loaded properly -- sis900 is in the list of loaded modules (the output of lsmod), and you do have an eth0 interface (the output of ifconfig -a).

But, it appears that the eth0 interface hasn't been configured -- there's nothing in the output of ifconfig that indicates that it's "up" (active), nor is there anything indicating that it has an IP address associated with it.

Have you put your network settings in /etc/conf.d/net? If so, do they work? Make sure /etc/conf.d/net has the appropriate settings in it, then run "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start" and see what happens -- check "/sbin/ifconfig -a" to see if it indicates that the interface is up and that it has been assigned an IP address.

If that works, then: did you add net.eth0 to the default runlevel? If not, the eth0 interface won't be configured after booting.

redbaron16 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:51 am Post subject:

in my /etc/conf.d/net file i only have two lines not commented out

iface_eth0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5"

it still fails bringing eth0 up

ozonator · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:25 pm Post subject:

Two thoughts:

First, try commenting out the 'dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5"' line and see if that helps (run "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start" -- if it doesn't work, post any errors)

Second, try running dhcpcd directly from the command line, e.g., "/sbin/dhcpcd eth0" -- on my laptop, this sometimes works when the net.eth0 script doesn't. I haven't taken time to debug the problem, since running dhcpcd manually normally works.

(just noticed you had put your config in your first post, which I missed last time around; sorry to ask for it again)

redbaron16 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:30 pm Post subject:

commented out that line
got
Failed to bring eth0 up

and /sbin/dhcpch eth0 does nothing

ozonator · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:37 pm Post subject:

Hmmm. Not much info there.

Anything in the system logs? Check /var/log/messages (if using syslog) or /var/log/everything/current (if using metalog). Note that metalog caches information by default -- send a "kill -USR1" to the master metalog process (look for it with "ps -ax | grep metalog" -- one will be marked as the master process) to make it write to disk as soon as it gets info -- maybe try running '/etc/net.eth0 start' again to prod it to dump any cached log entries.

redbaron16 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject:

i get an error...

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
dont know what that means

eth0: VIA 6103 PHY transceiver found at address 1
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 10 my physical addy
eth0: Media Link on 10mbps half-duplex

dhcpcd[971]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server respoinse

rc-scripts: Failed to bring eth0 up
ERROR: Provblem starting needed services "netmount"was not started

i sule syslog

redbaron16 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject:

i get an error...

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
dont know what that means

eth0: VIA 6103 PHY transceiver found at address 1
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 10 my physical addy
eth0: Media Link on 10mbps half-duplex

dhcpcd[971]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server respoinse

rc-scripts: Failed to bring eth0 up
ERROR: Provblem starting needed services "netmount"was not started

i sule syslog

ozonator · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:30 pm Post subject:

redbaron16 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:48 pm Post subject:

yeah i know what ip address my computer is assigned, so i will try using a static ip addy instead of trying to get it from the dhcpcd server,