I have a hard time installing Gentoo 2006.0 using either the minimal installation image or the LiveCD. The machine has a Asus A8V Deluxe mainboard with onboard networking. Windows identifies the network controller as "Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet", and Gentoo's lspci confirms this. However, I can't get the network card up and running with Gentoo (it works fine with i.e. OpenSUSE 10).
Searching this mailing list turned up hints to use "modprobe sk98lin", "modprobe skge" and "modprobe sky2" after booting. I tried all three variants, and lsmod lists the respective modules. After using "net-setup et0", ifconfig shows "Link encap:UNSPEC" and a weird hardware address. Ping fails for all addresses except the machine's own, and "RX bytes" for eht0 always remains zero. Any ideas? I'm pretty much stuck now and I'd appreciate your help. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
