Well, I had no problems actually installing the Gentoo system - all went sweetly, and the network card worked just like I expected it to.

However, come to restart the system, and things are less rosy. I can configure an IP address/mask and default gateway, but no joy in terms of actually communicating with any other machines.

The system is a Shuttle FX41 board with linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 running on it. There is no APIC support, as the processor does not support APIC. The network card module in use is the 8139too driver.

I see the following entries in the log if I try to ping the default gateway (which does response to ICMP!). This includes loading the 8139too driver.

Jul 5 14:01:01 [kernel] 8139too Fast Ethernet Driver 0.9.26
Jul 5 14:01:01 [kernel] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, 00:30:1b:ae:f6:db, IRQ 15
Jul 5 14:01:13 [kernel] eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1
Jul 5 14:01:37 [kernel] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out.

Any suggestions on how to get this to work?

TIA,

Aidan

The answer? Don't enable ACPI in the kernel! Even having the APM driver loaded seems to cause problems if the machine drops into a lower power mode, which is annoying.