fresh gentoo installation but eth0 does not exist
 

hey everyone i switched over to gentoo a few days ago and followed the installation guide on theire website. But once i reboot the system and load the newly compiled kernel it says that eth0 does not exist but dmesg says that the driver exists.... so does anyone got an idea how i could fix this???

R u sure there exists a kernel module for the interface?

Run and see the chipset of your card.

installation does not have it and live cd says intel 82566DM-2

Is that a Gigabit card?

oh yeah sry forget about that , yes it is a gigabit

Did you try out e1000.ko?

Check if it is present by running
If yes, try loading it and check if the interface came up.

could not find module e1000

but dmesg gives me:

Well. you need e1000.ko module then. While configuring your custom kernel, enable e1000 and recompile it.

thanks alot man,
eclipse is now up and running :P