Hey guys, I've put together a 64-bit system (amd64) and am now trying to install Gentoo on it. The probelem is that it isn't detecting my network card. When I first boot (from the live CD) /sbin/ifconfig only shows lo, no eth0.
I have a Marvell 8001 on-board 10/100/1000 NIC. After searching the Gentoo forum, I did modprobe sk98lin and that now shows me my NIC. I configured all it's parameters through net-setup, but I still have no networking. When I try pinging a host on my network or somewhere on the Internet I always get a Destination Host Unreachable error. I installed a separate NIC in the system and rebooted. /sbin/ifconfig again only showed lo. I then did modprobe 8139too and eth0 appeared. Again, I configured it using net-setup but am still getting the destination host unreachable error. I then tried booting with Knoppix. It detected both NICs, configured them and everything worked perfectly including Internet. The performance increase from 64-bit is amazing! So, this must be a Gentoo problem. I'm using the 2004.3 Universal AMD64 Live CD. Can anyone offer a helping hand? Keith
