eth0 not working [Resent after 8hrs]

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 06 Apr 2003 20:03:05 -0700


 From reading your Dmesg output it looks like the kernel is finding two eth 
devices.  Eth0 is going to the realtek driver and eth1 is used by a dlink pocket 
device (USB?).

what happens if you do 'ifconfig -a'?

> I've tried another card with a different chip and it still does it so I'm
> positive it's the software side of things. More specifically, the kernel. 
> Attached (hopefully) is my dmesg output from the livecd's boot and my current
> kernel config, after many things being removed and it still doesn't work.
> 
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> Quoting "Bryce C." <Plug@BryceCo.Net>:
> 
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>>It's a Netgear FA310TX that's using the tulip module compiled-in to the
>>kernel.
>> I don't htink it's going to work but I'm going to try taking iptables out
>>of
>>the kernel entirely.
>>
>>Quoting Kevin Brown <kevin_brown@qwest.net>:
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>>
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