while booting from the 2006.0 cd the system always hangs without error message when starting hdparm i interrupted the bootscript at this position and the rest booted fine then i realized, that the network module wasn't installed looked up the right driver in the internet for smc 1211tx and it should be 8139too when i load the module the system freezes without error message i have the nic connected to a router with dhcp running, other machines are working fine with it i tried several modules now and it seems 8139too is the right one, because it's the only one that do anything (unfortunatly freezing the system) i removed the card and everything works fine during boot it's a smc 1211tx with a mpx chip on it
please include exact kernel version. It may be necessary to attach the config /proc/config.gz or /usr/src/linux/.config. Please, if you have the ability, test with the latest vanilla kernel to see if the problem can be replicated there.
i haven't configured a kernel yet just started an installation without network, got gcc working and now i need to download kernelsources first somewhere the actually kernel that makes probs is the one on the livecd 2006.0 (and it's .config etc)
ok, some trying later it seems not to be the running system or the module the board is broken or the bios is not able to use pci-network cards it's an asus a7v333 with a new nic and rtl chip the nic has the same problem upgraded bios to 1017 bios when i start the system without the cable plugged in it starts up fine it only freeze when it gets the ip-adress from the router i am sorry to report this as a gentoo bug, but has anyone elese an idea what could cause the problem
