First: What is the NIC in the box where eth0 isn't showing up Second: Is the driver in your kernel?
If not, pastebin lspci Cheers Kad On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Cinder <cin...@linuxwaves.com> wrote: > Hello, and thancks for the help. I really dig Gentoo. > > I've installed my first Gentoo, but now I'm stuck. I started on an old > PIII to try things out. Got the networking, ATI happening with xfce4 (had to > unmasked a few things)and quickly dicided I would rather do this on the > fastest machine I've got. I stuck the hardrive in my PIV and it booted, so I > thought I'd just reconfigure and keep going. I compiled a new kernel with a > module for the new onboard nic and had networking again. After a deep update > gcc broke but was easy fixed by updating the link to my current gcc version > 4.3.2. After discovering the gentoolkit (Wow!) I was revdep-rebuilding > emerging -udN system and world 'cause my network interface was now coming up > as eth1. There seemed to some residue from the previous network and graphix > cards. So then I went removed the keywords file that unmasked packages for X > and or ATI and emptied the portage tree. "emerge -eN system && emerge -eN > world" 80!... 24 hours later my system has been entirely rebuilt with the > new gcc and no masked packages. Cool! Had unmerged X and xfce4 somewhere > along the way, so reinstalled them with some other bits and pieces as per > the Gentoo xfce4 config guide. Haven't rebooted yet. Reboot! Had grub now > Lilo? I didn't do that. Oh well, still works. Ok everything seems to be > fine, accept no network (and net-setup seems to have disapeared):( I think > have inadvertantly migrated to Xorg 1.5 with all that hal stuff). Then I > thought maybe i had migrated to openrc as well and started fiddling > /etc/conf.d and /etc/rc.conf. (and a bit in /etc/edev/rules.d too:0. But > emerge and equery assure me that I don't have baselayout-2 or openrc > installed. ifconfig -a shows only lo and sit0. So Any insight would be > greatly appreciated. Here are some detailes. > > # emerge --info http://pastebin.com/m36183d86 > > my kernel cofiguration http://pastebin.com/m318ca8e8 > > /etc/conf.d/rc http://pastebin.com/m3f351ff3 > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules http://pastebin.com/m36620252 > > _____________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE, LinuxWaves.com Email Now! --> http://www.LinuxWaves.com > Join Linux Discussions! --> http://Community.LinuxWaves.com
