eth0 not working [Resent after 8hrs]

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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: eth0 not working [Resent after 8hrs]
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.