I am unable to get my network hardware (Realtek 8139, built into motherboard) to work when booting off the CD, although the kernel appears to detect it when booting and I am able to configure networking. After networking is configured, I am unable to ping anything but the localhost interface. This network interface does work with the Gentoo Linux 1.2 install CD and with other OS installs.
Hmmm. I wonder if this is related to the 8139 and 8139too issue. Will continue to look for more information on this.
Might as well give the "2002122100" livecd a try at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/livecd/. Post results (good/bad) here.
*** Bug 11282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I tried the new livecd, and the same thing happens. I have found a workaround- -if I look at the kernel messages during the boot, my network card comes up with IRQ 18 assigned. If I disable "APIC mode" in the bios, the card is then assigned IRQ 11, and everything works OK. I have no idea why this is. Interestingly enough, networking on the Gentoo Linux 1.2 livecd works fine with "APIC mode" enabled on the same computer, and Red Hat and Windows work OK too.
Might also want to try typing "gentoo noapic" at the boot prompt to see if that solves things... that way, you theoretically could leave apic support enabled in your bios.
I tried booting with "gentoo noapic", and the livecd did not autodetect my network hardware. I then tried again with apic mode disabled in the bios, and still couldn't get it to autodetect. Maybe I'm doing something dumb...
I was having the same problem. To fix this, I had to have APIC enabled in the bios and I had to specify "gentoo acpi=no" when booting. This however gave me a ton of annoying "APIC error on CPU0" error messages. I am sure there is a way to tell the system to stop displaying error messages to the console, but I just can't remember. Hope that helps.
*** Bug 13183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
nothing we can fix.
