On Thursday 12 May 2005 09:31, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/12/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bringing eth0 up via DHCP > > ERROR: Problem starting needed services > > "netmount was not started". > > > > I can do a "modprobe 3c95x" and lsmod shows it is loaded. I can then do > > an "ifconfig eth0 up" and the interface is up (ping www.yahoo.com works). > > > > The file /etc/conf.d/net has two uncommented lines: > > iface_eth0="dhcp" > > gateway="eth0/10.10.10.1" > > rc-update show > rc-update add net.eth0 default > > man rc-update for more info if you require it. netmount could be added > if necessary. It isn't on my network. > Invoking "rc-update show" indicates net.eth0 is allready set to default.
I think the issue may be the 3c59x module as once it is manually modprobed, the network comes up just fine. What might be the proper way to tell a Gentoo installation where the kernel was compiled with "genkernel" that the network interface needs the module 3c59x to get it going. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
