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From: sHadoW MaN <captain_fantastik@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:09:27
Message-Id: BAY106-F2960A6BB0837C3EC271D3A89F50@phx.gbl
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist by Tom Haddon
1 Hi
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3 This is certainly because you haven't loaded your network card driver at
4 boot time. Be sure you have entered your driver name ( I am not sure maybe
5 it's 8029too) at file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. You can use nano
6 text editor to edit the file...
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8 Cheers
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12 cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK
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18 >From: Tom Haddon <mthaddon@×××××.com>
19 >Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
20 >To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
21 >Subject: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist
22 >Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:27:48 +0000
23 >
24 >Hi Folks,
25 >
26 >Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU,
27 >and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem
28 >to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an
29 >emulated network card to the OS it's hosting. Works fine for the install
30 >CD. Anyway, seeing as I was very new to the whole thing, I went with the
31 >genkernel option. As I say, everything seems to boot fine, except that I
32 >get this message:
33 >
34 >Starting eth0
35 > Bringing up eth0
36 > dhcp
37 > eth0 does not exist
38 >ERROR: problem starting needed services.
39 > "netmount" was not started
40 >
41 >I've tried /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start and /etc/init.d/netmount start and
42 >they both complain that eth0 doesn't exist. But if I do lspci I see my
43 >emulated network card right there:
44 >
45 >00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
46 >RTL-8029(AS)
47 >
48 >Can anyone help out? Am I just missing a kernel module?
49 >
50 >Tom Haddon
51 >mailto:mthaddon@×××××.com
52 >
53 >You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
54 >
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