Hey everyone,
I recently just installed stage3 Gentoo and went through the installation guide and followed all the steps that were appropriate for me.

finally, after 3 hours and 2 reinstalls (i now dislike grub), i type in the magical command reboot, it boots and it works beatutifully. except for my ethernet.

While booting the kernel, it tells me that eth0 doesn't exist.

So time for details i guess. I am on ADSL but its through a router with DHCP which i was lead to belive needed no configuration when installing Gentoo.

My ethernet card is the onboard card that came on my abit NF7-S motherboard.

I would absolutely love any help with this because i am stumped.

Thanks,
Drew

I'm assuming that you had internet during the install. Did you use genkernel to compile your kernel or did you do it by hand? In either case, you should make sure that the appropiate module is add to /ect/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x (x = 4 or 6). I had the same problem and I had forgotten to compile the ethernet card into my kernel.

Another thing to check is if you copied the DNS information to your hard drive, look under chapter 6 of the Gentoo handbook. if you forgot that step, then probably all you need to do is reconfigure eth0 per chapter 3 of the handbook. I can't think of anything else off hand. Good luck.

Thanks for the reply.
The thing is, now the problem i am having is which module to install. i can only find 2 on the install and they are dummy and s2io.

The error it is also giving me now is this:

Starting eth0
bringing up eth0
dhcp
eth0 does not exist [!!]
Error: Problem starting needed service.
"netmount"was not started.


so i just dont know where to go from here. I am still fairly new to the whole linux community and just trying to get on my feet.

how would i find the right module for my ethernet card? is there a site somewhere?

thanks.
Drew

I am having the same problem and have tried various options all to no avail.
{I think mine might be a conflict with my firewire card}. I get the network working by:
Boot off the gentoo cd/dvd
Mount required areas
copy the resolv.conf used by the livecd {see manual}
Chroot {see manual}
Update {see manual}
Reboot

For some reason this works untill the next time i switch the computer off.

Hope this helps

To find what modules are available go to the CLI and type:

# find /lib/modules/<kernel version>/ -type f -iname '*.o' -or -iname '*.ko'

If you see the module that you need then great, just add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x. If not then you might have to compile your own.

I don't know what modules are available with genkernel, as I compile the kernel from scratch. There isn't a site to "get" modules. They must be generated when the kernel compiles.

I've got the same problem (maybe the Gentoo Install Guide should note this... it seems to be pretty common).

When I check my modules out (using the find command above) the only net modules I've got are s2io and dummy (as a previous poster also discovered). Does that mean I've got to re-compile the kernel? I really hope not!

And once I've got the module compiled and all that, what do I need to do to make it load?

Cheers.

If the LiveCD can talk to the device, do an lsmod to see what driver-module is loaded.

Continuum

The module you need is "forcedeth"

In my case, AMD64, its found in

/lib64/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.ko

If you used genkernel the module will be there

For the hell of it just

If you get no errors check lsmod on the command line to see if it's loaded

To get the module loaded at boot time add it to

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

Instructions are in this file, basically just enter the module name in this case forcedeth

Hope this helps

Pete

Hi!
Make sure that you've marked "Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support":

in "make menuconfig"

Device Drivers ---> Network Device Support ---> Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) -> [M] or[*] Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support


kind regards
phu