I just finished installing 2004.3 on my 2004.2 box. Did a wipe on the drive and a fresh install. After I go through the install, I get the following error when the machine tries to start the ethernet: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device. eth0: unknown interface: No such device. SIOCSIFBRADDR: No such device. eth0: unknown interface: No such device. SIOCSIFNETMAST: No such device. I haven't changed any hardware on my system and my system was working fine with 2004.2. I then tried installing on a different system. I get the same error on the other system. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Gentoo 2004.3 from LiveCD 2. Reboot after install. Actual Results: The ethernet did not work. Expected Results: The ethernet should have come up.
Either you have not compiled the ethernet module for your network card. Steps to correct: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig (select your ethernet module as M) make modules modules_install modprobe (your ethernet module) Or you have not loaded it: emerge coldplug && /etc/init.d/coldplug start OR modprobe (your module) To make that permanent do: rc-update add coldplug boot or echo (your module) >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Can you please confirm that this fixes your bug?
I have already tried the process you described. It was on the forums. Many people are having the exact same error that I am having. I don't think this many people are forgetting to do something. Besides, I'm just following the install instructions verbatim from the gentoo website. How could I mess that up?
I appoligize. I tried this again and it worked. I actually didn't see the coldplug in the forum, but I did see the other part. I got coldplug starting at boot and now it works just fine. Thanks for the help.
