Re: internet

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 04:20, Glenn Murphy wrote:
> I've gotten gentoo installed fine but, I can't get my Ethernet card set
> up.  I  have a (according to Device Manager) SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI
> (SMC1211TX).  I went to rebuild the kernel and went to Network
> devices--->10/100 devices (or something like that)--->and enabled
> AMD/SMC cards.  I built it, etc, and rebooted.  I still had the same
> problem (adsl-start would just output 15 '.' and say TIME OUT).  I went
> back and disabled the last one and enabled SMC EtherFast II (further
> down the list) and did the same, and of course, gentoo did the same.
> When booting, just before login, it says:
> 
> *bringing up eth0
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device 
> eth0: unknown interface: No such device 
> SIOCSIF*: No such device 
> eth0: unknown interface: No such device 
> SIOCSIF*: No such device

Those error messages are caused by not having the correct driver for you
NIC compiled/loaded.  I think the driver you need for your card is
'RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support' in the kernel
configuration.  If you build it as a module then add it to
/etc/modules.autoload (module name is '8139too').

HTH,

- olly