[gentoo-user] udev and ethernet

[gentoo-user] udev and ethernet

[James]

Hello,

Hopefully, gmane.linux.gentoo.use will stay up long enough
to resolve this issue.

ON a i586 firewall machine I'm installing. I getting some
trouble with initialization of the ethernet port. For now,
I'm just setting up one ethernet interface and running
a gentoo sources 2.6.22-r5 kernel.

Neither hotplug nor coldplug are installed. Iptables and 
such are not activated at this time.

So when the system boots, the realtek 10/100 ethernet card
is not getting initialized correctly. I can manually set the
card, using ifconfig and set the routing up so emerging additional
software is not an issue, nor is ssh into the machine.

Upon booting the ethernet does not work. /etc/conf.d/net
is setup correctly. Here's what is echoed to the screen
during the boot sequence:


udev process events
Setting up hotplug events
using netlink for hotplug events

<snip>

Starting lo  
Bringing up lo
127.0.0.1/8
Adding routes
127.0.0.0/8
Starting eth0
192.168.2.33/24
<red> 192.168.2.33 already taken on eth0
<red>Error: cannot start netmount as net.eth0 could not start
<snip>


Hotplug is not installed (it was unmerged)
Since the machine is a K-6 i586, I used this tarball:
stage3-i586-2006.1.tar.bz2
and minimal x86 cd to bootstap the installation.

Maybe this problem is a vestige of using older
sources to perform the install....

Anyway any ideas on fixing this ethernet initialization problem
are most welcome.... (hurry with Gmane is working!)



James

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Re: [gentoo-user] udev and ethernet

[Mick]

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On Thursday 06 September 2007, James wrote:

> Starting eth0
> 192.168.2.33/24
> <red> 192.168.2.33 already taken on eth0
> <red>Error: cannot start netmount as net.eth0 could not start
> <snip>

You don't say but I assume that you have setup a static IP address which has 
not been released yet by the router.  You could set up the router to release 
the IP address sooner (if it has such a facility), power cycle the router, 
wait for a while before you reboot, or use dhcpcd to automatically obtain any 
address the router wants to give.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

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