eth0 not working [Resent after 8hrs]

[Kevin Brown]

Bryce C. wrote:
> It may be because it's late but I can not for the life of me get eth0 
> talking to
> anything.  It works under gentoo's livecd and it worked before then in 
> all the
> other distros I ran.  I can even restart to the livecd and it works. In 
> dmesg, I
> get alot of net watchdog: eth0 transmit timeout but also mii-tool does 
> negotiate
> (successfully) with the switch.

What module is the Gentoo LiveCD loading to work with that card?  I had this 
issue with an Intel 10/100/1000 card that I had to download the driver from 
Intel's site and then after completing the step to build the kernel, built the 
driver and then it would work.