Problem with network on Gentoo install.

[Seph64]

I tried my best to follow the directions over at http://www.gentoo.org but when it comes down to the final networking configuration (after you compile the kernel and such) it tells you to edit /etc/conf.d/net but I can't tell what they want me to edit in to the file.

I already tried getting the OS to use 2 different driver modules for my NIC (tulip and dmfe) and that's not working. If the file (/etc/conf.d/net) is not the source of the problem what is?

My NIC is a CNet PRO200WL PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter, it's based on a Davicom chip.

Any help is appreciated.

[hard candy]

I found this when I was installing Gentoo, apic, acpi interference (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=52834) , I added a line "pci=noacpi, noapic" to the kernel line in the Grub configuration file. Hope it helps. I have a realtek card but it apparently interferes with other types of NIC cards also.

[Icarus]

Is you network configured for DHCP or static? If it's DHCP you only need to unmark the two DHCP options near the begining and run the update...

of course this hasen't been working for me as it isn't bringing eth0 up at boot...I have a realtek card and it doesn't like the 8139too driver for some reason, so I've compiled them in the kernel and the dummy also (dummy works fine for me...)

that way I don't need to modprobe before I "ifconfig eth0 up" "dhcpd" to get the network running...

try the modprobe and ifconfig statements...see if that at least gets the network up for you

[Seph64]

Oops, I did it again. Fixing the problem without letting people know that I fixed it.

Anyway, the problem was that the /etc/conf.d/net file was not configured properly, so for a work around the problem, I just copied the /etc/conf.d/net file that the Gentoo LiveCD generated to /etc/conf.d/ on my hard drive.