> I've put together a 64-bit system (amd64) and am now trying to install > Gentoo on it. The probelem is that it isn't detecting my network card. > When I first boot (from the live CD) /sbin/ifconfig only shows lo, no > eth0. > > I have a Marvell 8001 on-board 10/100/1000 NIC. After searching the > Gentoo forum, I did modprobe sk98lin and that now shows me my NIC. I > configured all it's parameters through net-setup, but I still have no > networking. When I try pinging a host on my network or somewhere on the > Internet I always get a Destination Host Unreachable error. > > I installed a separate NIC in the system and rebooted. /sbin/ifconfig > again only showed lo. I then did modprobe 8139too and eth0 appeared. > Again, I configured it using net-setup but am still getting the > destination host unreachable error. > > I then tried booting with Knoppix. It detected both NICs, configured > them and everything worked perfectly including Internet. The performance > increase from 64-bit is amazing! > > So, this must be a Gentoo problem. I'm using the 2004.3 Universal AMD64 > Live CD. Can anyone offer a helping hand?
Oncee you've booted up into Knoppix, do an 'lsmod' to see which drivers are loaded up. Reboot into Gentoo and modprobe those. Also check the boot options in case there's something in there. When configuring the network cards, I always try to do this via the command line. Check dmesg once you've done that and post all related info back here. Regs. Iain.
