On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:08:53 +0000 John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> During installation my cable connection worked fine. My ISP uses > dynamic address assignment. But after building a kernel and rebooting > I cannot get a connection. I uncommented the correct line in > /etc/conf.d/net. > > The only error message I get on booting is > "Failed to calculate dependencies. No socket driver loaded. can't find > file---" Tthis is one of those messages with the red !! after it. > > I have all the pertinent drivers included in the kernel and not in > modules. > > When I have a kernel problem under Slackware I get the message on > bootup of SIOC___ not found." but with my new Gentoo kernel I get no > error message. > > When I key in the command dhcpcd I get no error message, but no > connection either. > Does dmesg include any reference to eth0? Are you sure that the driver that you built into the kernel is the correct one? Try running the LiveCD again and see what module it loads. -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org PGP key available at: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org/pgp.html and http://pgp.mit.edu (search 'ihtruelsen') -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
