My experience here is approaching the ridiculous. I have an amd64 3800+ riding an Epox 9NDA3+ mobo which has an nForce3 chipset and, among otheter things, an onboard NIC. Two weeks ago I decided to install gentoo from the 2004.3 universal cd. After three hours of trying to get the NIC to work, I came across an obscure little post which indicated I should boot "gentoo noapic" instead of just gentoo. >From what I recall, that did the trick and I went on to build what seemed to be a very fast and stable little system - until a few nights ago. For some reason, the NIC decided to just stop working. Eventually, I jacked an old 3c900 into the box and got that running. But then some other issues made me decide to do a fresh install and, while I'm at it, get the onboard NIC working again. However, the old "gentoo noapic" on the live cd is not working. ifconfig shows the NIC immediately after booting (but with the 192.168.0.xxx addr, not the 192.168.1.xxx addr that I need). All attempts at getting and address to be assigned via dhcp - fail. I can net-setup.ifconfig the card manually, but it doesn't matter because the card is just pretending - it doesn't *really* work. It can't ping anything except itself. Can someone please tell me:
1) What is the issue? What am I missing? 2) How do I fix it? 3) Why is this such a persistant issue, and when will it be fixed? Sorry to sound so frustrated, but it's not "just working". -- [email protected] mailing list
