Doesnt load eth0 at startup

TurkisH · 08-15-2004, 06:55 AM

Hiya all, I finished my installation on gentoo Linux 2.4.26 yesterday. I used the LiveCD for the installation. During the installation I used my network card with loading the module:

Code:

Modprobe tulip

Now after installation and rebooting the system I got the error while booting:

Code:

* Bringing eth0 up via DHCP
* ERROR: Problem starting needed services
   "netmount" was not started

Also ifconfig eth0 gives: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found.

So my guess is I missed this module during compiling. How can I fix this error. I already tried

Code:

cd /usr/src/linux 
make menuconfig

And chose the tulip card (think the correct one)

Code:

make && make modules_install

However still I couldn't use: modprobe tulip to start my eth0. I am completely new to linux and don't know how to proceed. Can someone help me?

TurkisH · 08-15-2004, 07:32 AM

I searched for this tulip.o for modprobing it, I did:

Code:

find / -name tulip.o -print

And it gave:

Code:

/usr/src/linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r8/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o

Then i Tried modprobe tulip again, but gave still: Can't locate module tulip
Also when i first did:

Code:

cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r8/drivers/net/tulip
and then
modprobe tulip

It still said: Can't locate module tulip.o

arno · 08-15-2004, 09:19 AM

The Tulip module is used for certain nic's
Could you post the content of:
cat /proc/modules
and
lspci | grep Ether

TurkisH · 08-15-2004, 11:07 AM

Code:

cat /proc/modules
nvidia
dummy

Code:

lsmod
nvidia
dummy

Code:

lspci | grep Ether
-bash: lspci: command not found

arno · 08-15-2004, 02:47 PM

Where is that dummy module coming from ?

Use the live cd to boot and then use
cat /proc/modules
and
/sbin/lspci

and post them here