Good info, thanks.
Well I have myself in a real pickle. I used the gentoo instruction page and at the very beginning it mentions that you may not have to do anything about eth0 as it might have been configured automatically. Well, it seemed mine was found it and I could access the internet from the boot cd. I then figured it would take care of it during install just fine. Wrong! lol
So now after all is said and done I do not have an ethernet driver for this step:
Code:
21.Final Network Configuration
Add the names of any modules that are necessary for the proper
functioning of your system to /etc/modules.autoload file (you
can also add any options you need to the same line.) When
Gentoo Linux boots, these modules will be automatically loaded.
Of particular importance is your ethernet card module, if you
happened to compile it as a module:
Code listing 21.1: /etc/modules.autoload
This is assuming that you are using a 3com card.
Check /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net for your card.
3c59x
I did look at this step and tried to figure out what to do but it wasn't obvious.
Code:
Code listing 21.2: Boot time Network Configuration
# nano -w /etc/conf.d/net
# rc-update add net.eth0 default
I have a line:
Code:
iface_eth0="192.168.0.2 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
Where do I find the configuration that actually points to my ethernet card driver?
During bootup it simply says:
Code:
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
I'm looking online at the gentoo site to figure out how to add the ethernet driver by hand etc.
:/