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Problem with eth0

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Gyrene

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I'm having a problem getting Gentoo to recognize the eth0 on my Dell 600m. It worked fine when I was using the LiveCD, but now it won't boot it up. It's a Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet card. Anyone have any suggestions as to what could be the problem?
 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
You probably need to load the kernel module for it. I'm not sure what the module's name is, though.
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Yea, I thought that might be what it was, but I checked the driver, and it's loaded, so that's not the problem.
 
NIC might have gone bad too. That is the only real crash I have had on my server at home, and it was a doozy.
 
Originally posted by: skyking
NIC might have gone bad too. That is the only real crash I have had on my server at home, and it was a doozy.
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Yeah he might be right. Try booting with the LiveCD again and see if it still works!
 
Try setting it up manually.

ifconfig eth0

will display it even if it's not configured

ifconfig eth0 <ip.address.you.use>

then

route add default gw <gate's.ip.address>

then make sure that you have at least

nameserver <you'r dns.server's.ip.address>

listed in /etc/resolv.conf

Then test it with pings.
That way you can know that your computer is network capable. If that stuff doesn't work then it's likely that you have other issues.

As far as configuring the network to start automaticly I bet you can find good directions at gentoo.com 🙂
 
Originally posted by: dtyn
Originally posted by: Nothinman
God I hate Broadcom NICs.
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Didn't have much of a choice. It was integrated.
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Yea.... and they make (or made) the only 10mbps phoneline NICs and wouldn't release linux drivers. Eventually linksys released some part-binary drivers.
 
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