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Hi, |
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I've been helping a friend over the phone who's trying to fix a |
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networking problem. This machine was built a month ago running |
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something like 2.6.39-gentoo-r2. Networking worked great. I do not |
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know what driver it was using, but it worked great. |
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Two weeks ago we updated the machine to 3.0-0-gentoo and I think |
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networking was working fine however I never logged in and never tested |
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the network interface. The owner believes it was working, at least for |
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a while, but it isn't now. When we boot now we get the message: |
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"Interface eth0 does not exist" |
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which typically happens when you don't have the correct driver |
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installed. The system is loading the e1000e driver but we're not able |
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to start net.eth0. |
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lspci -k says the e1000e driver is in use, and e1000e is in memory. |
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We then tested again with the original 2.6.39 kernel and found that |
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even with that kernel, which I absolutely know worked at one time |
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because I built the machine over the Internet for him, it no longer |
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works. That kernel is also loading e1000e. |
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We then booted from the Gentoo LiveCD and found that the LiveCD is |
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also loading e1000e and that with the LiveCD everything is working |
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perfectly. I can ssh into the box, he can ping Google. Everything is |
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cool with the e1000e driver using the Live CD, but not using the |
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kernels we build. |
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At this point I set up the chroot install environment, dropped in |
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to build a new kernel. I did a make clean && make && make |
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modules_install. Everything built fine. I copied it over to /boot, |
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rebooted and still have the same problem. e1000e is loaded but says |
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the the interface doesn't exist. |
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The net.eth0 link exists in /etc/init.d, and trying to start |
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networking using .etc.init.d/net.eth0 yields the same error. |
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What am I doing wrong here? How come it used to work, and still |
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works from the CD, but won't work from his old or new kernels? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |