The Gentoo Handbook draft, part 4 chapter 1, starts out with these instructions: To get started configuring your network card, you need to tell the Gentoo RC system about it. This is done by creating a symbolic link from net.lo to net.eth0 in /etc/init.d Code Listing 1 # cd /etc/init.d # ln -s net.lo net.eth0 This is wrong. net.lo is not suitable for starting other network interfaces. net.eth0 is installed in the base layout, so it ought to be present. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Browse to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/draft/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=1 2. Follow the instructions for setting up net.eth0 3. Execute /etc/init.d/net.eth0, observe that the loopback device is started instead Actual Results: The eth0 network interface was not started. The documentation gave bad instruction. Expected Results: The eth0 network interface should have been started. The documentation should give good instructions. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-hardened-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 08:39:33)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/ http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dga dvd dvdr emboss encode esd evo fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang slp snmp spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis wifi xface xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS
No, net.eth0 is not installed in new (still unstable) baselayout - check the ebuilds. :-)
yeah, i think the draft covers the unstable versions of baselayout, in which case there is just one net.lo script and all other interfaces are symlinked to it
The draft is for baselayout-1.11.x which is stated in the second Note section at the top of the page in the URL referenced. baselayout-1.11.x just provides net.lo which caters for any net.eth0 et all.
