i recently purchased another hdd+tray to install gentoo on, just to see what the fuss is about.
i booted off the 2004.3 minimal install cd but it did not, unfortuanately, automatically find my realtek gigabit nic.
i suspected it might not, because i had a hell of time getting it to work on fbsd aswell - requiring a patched if_sk driver to get it going.
after a bit of digging, i found that i could
# modprobe sk98lin
to get the kernel happy with the nic. once up, it worked like a charm.
it got late and i needed to finish up some work on fbsd, so i pulled the gentoo drive out, plugged fbsd back in and booted up.
when it came up, i found that i was without a network! # dmesg | grep sk said something about (IIRC) (blah) skc0: no PHY found
# ifconfig confirmed that there was no net
when i tried to manually # kldload if_sk freebsd panic'ed and died right there!
i rebooted a few times (a trick i learnt from ms) but still it would not come back. even powering the machine completely down did not help!!!
so i plugged in the winxp drive and booted. it came up fine, network in good working order.
i booted fbsd again and the network came up this time without a complaint!
AND I CAN REPLICATE THIS MADNESS!
boot fbsd - check network = all okay boot gentoo livecd - load sk98lin - check network = all okay boot fbsd - check network = notwork!
(remedy) boot wxp - check network = all okay boot fbsd - check network = all okay
wtf???
i understand that my GF would be upset if i played around with other girls, but does my OS have to be *so damn jealous*????
any ideas whats on here?
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