On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:44:00 +0000 João Matos <jaon...@gmail.com> 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Thank you all, > Hi João, Let's do some basic troubleshooting. look at the output of the following commands # lspci # dmesg | grep -b2 -a2 -i ethernet # lsmod This will hopefully help us determine if the correct driver is loaded.
