Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Gigabit Ethernet problem

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:33 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've been struggling with this for a while, I am setting up this new
> machine, but got stuck because I can't find a way to make the network
> card work... According to lspci:
> 
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
> 
> The weird thing is, it works just fine when booting the LiveCD, dmesg shows:
> 
> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4
> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
> e1000: 0000:02:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:32-bit) 00:10:c6:a1:5a:41
> e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection
> e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
> e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/1000 speed: disabling TSO
> 
> but when booting the local kernel:
> 
> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4
> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
> e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection

It appears as if driver works and has created the device but...

Have you configured the device in /etc/conf.d/net?  Have you added
net.eth0 to the default runlevel?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=1

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Albert W. Hopkins

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