via-rhine issues with gentoo

Aman9090 · 03-13-2004, 03:33 PM

Just installed gentoo for the 4th time and I am having troubles bringing up my network card. This is my 4th install of it, and I did everything exactly the same, so I don't know what is different about this.

I currently have compiled my kernel so that my network drivers (via-rhine) are loaded through modules so I added a line that said 'via-rhine' and saved/exited.

It loads the module successfully but then says when trying to bring eth0 up:

Code:

Failed to bring eth0 up
ERROR: Problem starting needed services. "netmount" was not started

Aman9090 · 03-13-2004, 08:14 PM

Aman9090 · 03-14-2004, 12:11 AM

I have just found out that my via-rhine device was actually clasified under eth1 but I fixed it (took out my pci card that was making it eth0) and confirmed this with dmesg | less.

However, this still does not help the problem. eth0 still can't come up and even if i dhcpcd it manually it doesn't work.

Let me just remind everyone that dhcpcd has always worked in the past. My ISP has a dhcp server.

Thanks again - I'd appreciate a quick reply

peter_robb · 03-14-2004, 10:56 AM

Has the module mii also loaded?
You mentioned you had done exactly the same install but also you had done a custom kernel... (?)
and there wasn't a problem with the 2nd net card earlier?
For initial installs, stay with genkernel all and play with menuconfig later...

Remove the module with modprobe -r via-rhine
Then lsmod and see if any other net modules are loaded
Look in /lib/modules/2.4.xxx/kernel/drivers/net/ for names
Remove any other net modules..

Then insert the module with modprobe via-rhine
and do dmesg.
The last lines will display what it has found.

Once your adapter is found, you can ifconfig eth0 up & ifconfig and see if it gets listed.
If it's listed, do /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
Make sure /etc/conf.d/net lists iface_eth0="dhcp"

zerget · 11-08-2004, 12:35 PM

Heres what I did to get mine to work

It would work for a while, then when I did an emerge sync - my ethernet card would take a dump. I could ping (ie ping -c 3 yahoo.com) and it would work fine, but when I went to yahoo.com it didnt work.

do this:
Stop your ethernet card:

Code:

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop

INStall MODule mii - this is a dependancy required by the via-rhine module

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insmod mii

(this should load fine - if it doesnt its probably already loaded check lsmod)
INStall MODule via-rhine (driver for network card - try via-rhine.o if it doesnt work)

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insmod via-rhine

(you may need to update yoiur drivers!!)
Start your ethernet card up again:

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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

and possibly you might need

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dhcpcd eth0

to get your IP address.

then just check ifconfig to make sure your stuff is up...

if all goes well (you can get on the internet)

do this:
update your module configuration (so it will start them when you reboot)

Code:

modules-update

and just to make sure, edit /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel* (2.4 or 2.6 check uname -r to see what version you have):
something like

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vi /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4

add this at the end of it

Code:

mii

Code:

via-rhine

IN THAT ORDER and if your pc complains again try using mii.o or via-rhine.o
GOOD LUCK

acid_kewpie · 11-08-2004, 12:41 PM

zerget, while responses like yors aer useful, you do realise that this was asked over 6 months ago?

zerget · 11-08-2004, 10:15 PM

I had this same problem 2 times after I reinstalled Gentoo. I would have really appreciated it if someone had left me a great tutorial - but no, I had to figure the shit out myself (and it was pretty challanging)