Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I've been helping a friend over the phone who's trying to fix a > networking problem. This machine was built a month ago running > something like 2.6.39-gentoo-r2. Networking worked great. I do not > know what driver it was using, but it worked great. > > Two weeks ago we updated the machine to 3.0-0-gentoo and I think > networking was working fine however I never logged in and never tested > the network interface. The owner believes it was working, at least for > a while, but it isn't now. When we boot now we get the message: > > "Interface eth0 does not exist" > > which typically happens when you don't have the correct driver > installed. The system is loading the e1000e driver but we're not able > to start net.eth0. > > lspci -k says the e1000e driver is in use, and e1000e is in memory. > > We then tested again with the original 2.6.39 kernel and found that > even with that kernel, which I absolutely know worked at one time > because I built the machine over the Internet for him, it no longer > works. That kernel is also loading e1000e. > > We then booted from the Gentoo LiveCD and found that the LiveCD is > also loading e1000e and that with the LiveCD everything is working > perfectly. I can ssh into the box, he can ping Google. Everything is > cool with the e1000e driver using the Live CD, but not using the > kernels we build. > > At this point I set up the chroot install environment, dropped in > to build a new kernel. I did a make clean && make && make > modules_install. Everything built fine. I copied it over to /boot, > rebooted and still have the same problem. e1000e is loaded but says > the the interface doesn't exist. > > The net.eth0 link exists in /etc/init.d, and trying to start > networking using .etc.init.d/net.eth0 yields the same error. > > What am I doing wrong here? How come it used to work, and still > works from the CD, but won't work from his old or new kernels?
I bet udev renamed the device -- check and see if you have eth anything. Udev does things like that. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com