Charles Trois wrote:
Charles,

Did you do a "rc-update add net.eth0 default" so that the interface is 
brought up at boot?

You may also want to take a look at this section of the Gentoo Handbook:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=4

HTH

Draeven

> Draeven a écrit :
> 
>> Charles,
>>
>> Please post the contents of your /etc/conf.d/net
> 
> 
> I attach it here.
> 
>> Also, is your NIC driver built into the kernel or a module?
> 
> 
> I have no modules at all, everything is in the kernel; lsmod returns an 
> empty list.
> 
>> If it is modular, you can load it by using coldplug ("emerge 
>> coldplug") or you can add the module to 
>> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.
> 
> 
> I also attach my .config file, just in case.
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
>> Charles Trois wrote:
>>
>>> Matti Bickel a écrit le 11/11/2005
>>>
>>>> Please check if you compiled support for tmpfs in your kernel. The
>>>> option is CONFIG_TMPFS. Do NOT make this a module.
>>>>
>>>> This is kinda wild guess, but it sounds like you're missing
>>>> kernel-support.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry for this late answer. Your guess was quite right and enabled me 
>>> to get over that error. I then met various little problems that I was 
>>> able to solve, but there remains a (hopefully) last one.
>>>
>>> The new error message is:
>>> Problem starting needed services
>>> "netmount" was not started.
>>>
>>> /etc/init.d/netmount start gives the same error. eth0 is not brought 
>>> up and ifconfig lists only lo.
>>>
>>> What have I done wrong?
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