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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:01:58
Message-Id: 1129395058.6752.9.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer by Martins Steinbergs
1 On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:07 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote:
2 > i would say there no support for ya net cart built into kernel/module
3 >
4 > On Thursday 13 October 2005 17:51, Michael Sullivan wrote:
5 > > I got a new computer yesterday. As I was installing Gentoo on it, I ran
6 > > into a problem. I've got the basic install set up, but my eth0 won't
7 > > start. It would with the liveCD. When I boot up with the live CD and
8 > > run:
9 > >
10 > > dmesg | grep 'eth0" it gives me this output:
11 > >
12 > >
13 > > e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xff910000, irq 20, MAC addr 00:13:20:2B:98:18
14 > > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100 Mbps, full-duplex
15 > > eth0: no IPv6 routers present
16 > >
17 > >
18 > > However, when I reboot into my installed environment and run the same
19 > > command, there's no mention of 'eth0'. I tried emerging net-misc/e100 (I
20 > > thought it might help), but the build failed. Something about too many
21 > > parameters being passed to a method. Is there anything I can do to
22 > > resolve this other than filing a bug report?
23
24 I found it. Had to modprobe e100 and restart /etc/init.d/net.eth0.
25
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with eth0 on new computer Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@×××××.com>