Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Forrest Schultz
You can use lspci or something like that to enumerate your network cards, right? Maybe your port is shot or something. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com wrote: I was running on 3.0.6 kernel, when after a problem with the phone line internet was down for 3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Vítor Brandão
Most likely this is due to a udev upgrade. Please check the udev upgrade guide: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade 2013/4/15 Forrest Schultz f.schul...@gmail.com You can use lspci or something like that to enumerate your network cards, right? Maybe your port is shot or something. On

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
Its still coming up with the same thing: 02:00:0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL811/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Typed that manually (using lappy atm, with desktop beside me) On 4/15/13, Forrest Schultz f.schul...@gmail.com wrote: You can use

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Vítor Brandão vitorbrandao...@gmail.com wrote: Most likely this is due to a udev upgrade. Please check the udev upgrade guide: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade +1 mark@c2stable ~ $ eselect news list News items: [1] 2012-09-09 make.conf and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Randy Barlow
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 23:13 +1000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: Its still coming up with the same thing: 02:00:0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL811/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Typed that manually (using lappy atm, with desktop beside me) Today

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Daiajo Tibdixious
Ah udev. I had done some of the upgrade steps but not all. The network startup is still failing for some reason. I did find out that my network device is enp2s0, and I can bring it up manually. I'll sort out the startup problems later. Thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious. On

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Frank Peters
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:13:56 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: If you skip anything in this news item, your system will not be bootable, or your networking will be down, or both. [snip] [snip] [snip] [snip] [snip] [snip] [snip] Whoa! I'm so glad I made the choice to not

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:13:56 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: If you skip anything in this news item, your system will not be bootable, or your networking will be down, or both. [snip] [snip]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Barry Schwartz
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net skribis: Whoa! I'm so glad I made the choice to not use that mess known as udev. -- and I hope I will always have that choice. I do, too. Fortunately the kernel folk don’t get caught up in these fads that grip upon the minds of some userspace developers;

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote: Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net skribis: Whoa! I'm so glad I made the choice to not use that mess known as udev. -- and I hope I will always have that choice. I do, too. Fortunately the kernel folk

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Barry Schwartz
Incidentally I have my ethernet devices configured with some udev rules to assign specific names to the given mac addresses, and I use static routing. This is for an ordinary desktop computer. I view the automatic stuff as useful to get going in a hurry, but for long term nothing beats taking as

Re: [gentoo-amd64] eth device vanished

2013-04-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote: Incidentally I have my ethernet devices configured with some udev rules to assign specific names to the given mac addresses, and I use static routing. This is for an ordinary desktop computer. I view the