net.eth0 problem
 

I've been building a Gentoo OS and mostly overcome problems along the way. Finally I rebooted and have a partially working system. Networking is not working. If I do
I see net.eth0 flashing red.
If I do
I get
If I do
I get
What's happening here? Does it exist or does it not?
I am new to all this, my main OS being Pardus (easy beginners distro) so would appreciate if you treat me as a novice, I am at the lower end of the learning curve.

It may be that you simply need to start the interface. Try this as root:
If that doesn't work, here are instructions from the Gentoo documentation:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...?part=4&chap=1

Good luck.

I keep getting the message, so cannot start or stop. I've already been to the page you suggested, but no help. Problem still exists.

Could you show me the output of the following?
I am asking cause the sym link may exist, yet the original file it is supposed to point to may not exist.

Cheers,

Josh

@corp769

Contents of /etc/init.d are as follows:

bootmisc
consolefont
crypto-loop
devfs
dhcpcd
dmesg
fsck
functions.sh
git-daemon
hostname
hwclock
keymaps
killprocs
local
localmount
mdev
modules
mount-ro
mtab
net.eth0 (still flashing red)
net.lo
netmount
network
nscd
numlock
procfs
pydoc-2.7
pydoc-3.1
reboot.sh
root
rsyncd
savecache
shutdown.sh
sshd
staticroute
swap
swclock
sysctl
sysfs
syslog-ng
termencoding
udev
udev-dev-tarball
udev-mount
udev-postmount
urandom

Oops, major typo! Sorry about that.... Post the output of the following for me:

I removed net.eth0 and symlinked again and this has stopped it flashing. Hopefully I can move forward now

How did you symlink it in the first place? And what was it originally linked to?

To be honest I'm not sure what I did. I've been trying various things to get the network up and running, some from the Gentoo handbook and some based on what I've read in forums. Not sure how I ended up in that position. I'm still not networked, but I seem to be making progress. At least ifconfig now shows RX packets and TX packets. Previously there were none. As I said earlier, I am a complete noob, but I'll get there in the end. Gentoo is just a project for me to try and improve my understanding of how Linux works, so I've got plenty of time. :)