[gentoo-ppc-user] no eth0 and cannot run mkofboot

[Michael George]

I got my gentoo system installed on my 800MHz quicksilver powermac.  It
rebooted just fine, but it cannot find it's ethernet device.

I build the MACE controller into the kernel, so I thought it would be all set.

So, on my newly booted system, I went to /usr/src/linux and did a make
menuconfig and I changed the built-in ethernet controllers to modules so that
I could try to see if they would load and maybe get more debugging info.

I rebuilt the kernel and moved it into place, but when I run mkofboot, it
cannot get the open firmware address of my devices because sysfs is missing.

I also got an error on startup that syslog-ng was not present (I removed it as
per the instructions in teh handbook so that I could put the preferred logger
in place).  I removed what it said and metalog claims to be running, but dmesg
has only error message and /var/log/messages is empty.

So my questions:

What device drivers for ethernet should I include for a quicksilver 800MHz and
is there something I specifically have to do to enable it?

Why is sysfs missing?

What did I miss that my system is still trying to run syslog-ng and why isn't
metalog logging anything?

Thanks!

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