Am Sonntag 17 Juni 2007 00:24 schrieb Thierry de Coulon: > On Saturday 16 June 2007 22:55, Xavier Parizet wrote: > > Coud you provide us the output of dmesg according forcedeth module (dmesg > > > > |grep forcedeth), route -n, ifconfig ethX and /etc/conf.d/net ... > > I could, but this is no more necessary > > On Saturday 16 June 2007 23:20, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > A guess from what I have read on another list: You have a conflict > > because both drivers (modules) are loaded, the RLT one and forcedeth. If > > you remove the RLT module, does is work? > > > > Uwe > > Your guess was wrong, Uwe, but it did help me get on the right track. > There is no RTL driver for that chip but... looking another time at the > output of lsmod and getting the ansers to Xavier's demands I realized that > I the system said that eth0 did not exists - but gave it an IP anyway. SO I > wondered who could be stealing my eth0 and sure enough, it was eth1394! > > So although I did configure the ethernet card as eth0 during install, after > reboot the firewire port took eth0 and the nforce card became eth1... > > So now I have put a (useless) config for eth0 in /etc/conf.d/net (perhaps I > could remove it, but I don't know) and tranfered my settings on eth1, and I > got my network back. > > Thanks you both for your help! Now is time to start emerge kde and go to > bed!
You could rc-update del net.eth0 as root to save some boot time.
pgpsjGeUXlymL.pgp
Description: PGP signature
