Gentoo Archives: gentoo-laptop

From: Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa <joaquim.uchoa@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Ethernet not starting...
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:08:06
Message-Id: 59541ff30704261106y93de887i1de9e98a3e556e5a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Ethernet not starting... by mail
1 Good,
2
3 This took me a complete day recompiling kernel here, I was thinking
4 in problem with Xen or some package... Tried several options of kernel,
5 till found eth5 with ip addr... Looked in Google e found the answer in a
6 Gentoo forum.
7
8 One day lost and it was only a little file...
9
10 2007/4/26, mail <lists@×××××.net>:
11 > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:35 -0300, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote:
12 > > If this instalation was used in another machine, or you have another net device,
13 > > udev can be putting your broadcom as another number (eth2, ...)
14 > >
15 > > Try
16 > > ifconfig -a
17 > > or
18 > > ip addr
19 > > to get all interfaces on your system
20 > >
21 > > If the problem is the wrong id on eth, remove
22 > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
23 > >
24 > > And udev will recreate automaticaly again.
25 > >
26 > > 2007/4/26, mail <lists@×××××.net>:
27 > > > Hi, I know this sounds bad, I must be missing something really easy
28 > > > here. I can't seem to start my ethernet interface...
29 > > >
30 > > > I have a Thinkpad T43
31 > > > lspci shows:
32 > > > Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit PCI Express card
33 > > >
34 > > > I loaded the Tigon3 kernel module
35 > > > dmesg shows:
36 > > > eth0: Tigon3... with a mac address
37 > > >
38 > > > I have a simple setup in conf.d/net of just config_eth0= ( "dhcp" )
39 > > > however, when I try to start it, I get the following error:
40 > > >
41 > > > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, I get:
42 > > > * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
43 > > > * Starting eth0
44 > > > * Bringing up eth0
45 > > > * dhcp
46 > > > * network interface eth0 does not exist
47 > > > * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ]
48 > > >
49 > > >
50 > > > If I boot with a knoppix live CD, the Interface fires up fine, so I know
51 > > > it is supported...
52 > > >
53 > > > What am I missing?
54 > > > Thanks!
55 > > > rick
56 > > >
57 > > >
58 > > >
59 > > > --
60 > > > gentoo-laptop@g.o mailing list
61 > > >
62 > > >
63 > >
64 > >
65 > > --
66 > > []s
67 > > Joaquim
68 > > ------------------------------------------
69 > > (o_ Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
70 > > //\ Consultor Linux e EaD
71 > > U_/_ Linux User # 100534
72 > > ------------------------------------------
73 >
74 >
75 > That was it!
76 > Thanks
77 > rick
78 >
79 >
80 >
81 >
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85 >
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90 Joaquim
91 ------------------------------------------
92 (o_ Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
93 //\ Consultor Linux e EaD
94 U_/_ Linux User # 100534
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