On 10/26/2013 15:44, João Matos wrote:
Hi list,
I`ve just installed a brand new gentoo amd64 and there is this problem:
my "Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168
PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)" is recognized as
*sit0* , but I can't get any IP Adress.
sit0 is a virtual adapter for 6to4, an IPv6 transition mechanism, not a
real Ethernet adapter.
dhcp takes long and doesn't get any result. dhcpcd doesn't work either.
Even if I choose a manual address I cant ping other devices.
Since sit0 isn't a real adapter, it isn't actually your network card, so
it isn't connected to anything.
When I used ifconfig, I got something like "ipv6 over ipv4", but I will
only need ipv4. So I disabled ipv6 USE flag, but I didn't change
anything. The weird thing is that if I disable the IPV6 kernel support
(manual configuration btw), the network interface (sit0) desappears!
When I reboot the system using a usb botable Ubuntu everything works
fine, using the same hardware/infrastructure.
I have no idea what is going on here, so, please, send me some links.
You need to make sure the driver for your network adapter is compiled in
to the kernel. I believe for your card, that would be CONFIG_R8169:
Device Drivers --->
[*] Network device support --->
[*] Ethernet driver support --->
[*] Realtek devices
<*> Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support
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