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Bug 124514

Summary: Undetected ETH0
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: Sylvain Alain (RETIRED) <d2_racing>
Component: EverythingAssignee: Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: radek
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Sylvain Alain (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-01 04:55:25 UTC
Hello, I have a weird bug for you.

In fact, my network is undetected with the minimal LiveCD 2006.0.

When I do ifconfig, I only see LO(LoopBack).

But, when I use the LiveCD 2005.0, I can see my eth0 perfectlly and my network is up.

With the command : ping -c 3 www.google.ca 

it's ok

For the record, I use a D-Link DFE-538Tx for my Ehternet and I have a LinkSYS BEFSR41v4 in DHCP mode.

To correct this bug, I did that :

#ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100
#ifconfig eth0 up
#rmmod 8139too
#modprobe 8139too
#ping -c 3 www.google.ca

And my network was up at last.

So, is there a problem with the autodectection of the D-Link DFE-538tx or something else, because I need to remove the 8139too module and then reinsert this module to make my network start.
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-01 04:58:54 UTC
Are you sure your interface wasn't detected but just not up? Try running 'ifconfig -a' and see if it shows up. If it does, it was detected fine and DHCP just wasn't started for it. If you don't have DHCP, you have to configure it manually for it to show up.
Comment 2 Sylvain Alain (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-01 15:11:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you sure your interface wasn't detected but just not up? Try running
> 'ifconfig -a' and see if it shows up. If it does, it was detected fine and DHCP
> just wasn't started for it. If you don't have DHCP, you have to configure it
> manually for it to show up.
> 

Finally, I found that my eth0 was there and my ip was valide.

So I just executed this command at the prompt :

#dhcpcd eth0

And everything is ok now.
Comment 3 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-01 16:45:26 UTC
Ok, so not a bug then I guess :)