Hi peeps,
I am having a real problem with new Gentoo 1.4 basic LiveCD. When I start
it up (kernel acpi, parms dokeymap to select UK), I get this five or so
repeated lines showing that 8139cp driver is loading with Sep 2 release
date, and nothing more. Confirmed by dmesg. When I'm in at root, I do an
ifconfig eth0 and it freezes! Nothing happens, the console is dead,
characters I type just appear at the cursor which just sits where it's put
to the right of the typed characters, and only a kill of ifconfig from an
alternative console can get it back. I tried modprobe 8139cp and, yikes,
there's no such device. I try rmmod 8139cp for good measure, and of course
the module was never loaded :-( . I try modprobe 8139too - it loads
alright, displaying nothing, but ifconfig still freezes up. net-setup eth0
can't get far - soon as it starts dhcpcd, it freezes, again. :-( The only
difference now is that, from another console, attempt to rmmod 8139too
shows device as busy. I tried with the nofb kernel (I use a braille
terminal driver which must not have a framebuffer mode) and also the
noapic parameter for the nofb kernel - same thing.
This never ever ever bothered me in the good times of 1.4RC4's LiveCD, it
just worked! Does anyone have any idea what in the name of your chosen
place of despair (I propose my former university accommodation :-) ) is
going on here? Any help much appreciated!!
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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