I have tried two different NICs, and two different kernels, also I have tried using genkernel and not using genkernel, and still get this problem. After following the installation instructions on the gentoo website, I reboot my machine and log in. I of course want to get networking online so I can emerge some more software and chat with my buddies, but when I issue the following command: ifconfig eth0 209.218.8.153 broadcast 209.218.8.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 the system hangs, and is only recoverable by hitting the reset button on the front of my machine. Upon further investigation (ie, booting off the liveCD and trying to figure out what modules my NIC was using) I issued the lsmod command, which returned: Module Size Used by Tainted: GF 8139too 14184 1 mii 2192 0 [8139too] among other things, but those seemed to be the only two linked together, and the 8139too module is the one for my NIC. Networking works just fine from the liveCD, but will not work from my installed system. kernels attempted: gentoo-sources-r7 gaming-sources-r5 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot system 2. attempt to configure NIC using ifconfig Actual Results: system hung Expected Results: configured my network and went on with its life from the liveCD: cdimage root # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23) 00:13.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a4) cdimage root # lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: GF 8139too 14184 1 mii 2192 0 [8139too] floppy 47004 0 (autoclean) serial 48932 0 (autoclean) isa-pnp 28100 0 (autoclean) [serial] cloop 5520 1 usb-storage 59372 0 (unused) hid 12564 0 (unused) uhci 22944 0 (unused) usbcore 55712 1 [usb-storage hid uhci] after chroot'ing to my 'successful' installation: cdimage / # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21-gss) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk imlib jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png qt quicktime sdl slang spell svga truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline java tcpd pam ssl perl python"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29638 ***
