No internet at boot - SOLVED

[ipsofacto]

*scratches head*.

Hmmm, still no joy. Here's what I did:

make menu-config
added Rhine support and saved, then copied as 'newkernel-blah' over to /boot
changed /boot/grub/grub.conf so as to boot newkernel-blah

Still giving same error message eg Eth0 not found, net-mount not started.

When its bootin' it failes to autoload module 3c59x. Could this be the missing link? Its in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.

Failing that and on the assumption that I have done everything correctly - which obviously I havent or I wouldnt be typing this! - the only other option I can think off is adding bridging support in /etc/conf.d/net cos I am using this - or trying to! - in VMware. It says to use this i need to emerge net-misc/bridge-utils. Am I barking up the wrong tree here (noob remember?) Should I stick with Suse?

Once again, all help/suggestions warmly received. Thanks again.

EDIT - I think I know what the problem is. As I am installing this on a *virtual* machine, my *real* network card is neither here nor there cos VMware will have its own virtual one. For example, lspci from VMware says this:

Ethernet controller" Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)

ok, am about to do some googling....

[Entangledphoton]

just to verify, after you did your
make menuconfig
you did run
make && make modules_install
before you copied over your kernel to /boot?

Also, there is no need to load the 3c59x module if you do not have hardware... that was given in the guide as a n example, so you should delete it from your autoload file.

[ipsofacto]

The problem was as stated above. VMware is *virtual* and therefore uses a virtual network card, not my real one (Rhine). I just recompiled and included support for the virtual network card and all good. Phew!

As a side note, I have just started out with linux and think I have learned more about how linux *works* by installing Gentoo than I have with 2months of Suse (which, I guess, says how user-friendly Suse really is).

Now I have to get Gentoo up and running. i daresay i'll be posting again v soon. Haha!

Thanks for the help.

[budman7]

Glad to hear that you got it working.

[ipsofacto]

Thanks budman7.

The problem would of been solved earlier had I done lscpci from within VMware to check my network card. I was in Suse at the time and (wrongly) assumed that VMware would use my real network card.

Still, lesson learnt in this somewhere ....

[budman7]

Thanks budman7.

The problem would of been solved earlier had I done lscpci from within VMware to check my network card. I was in Suse at the time and (wrongly) assumed that VMware would use my real network card.

Still, lesson learnt in this somewhere ....

Thanks for that bit of info.
I have no experience with vmware and did not realize that it would use a virtual device.
It does make sense though, now that I think about it.

[jpcohen]

The problem was as stated above. VMware is *virtual* and therefore uses a virtual network card, not my real one (Rhine). I just recompiled and included support for the virtual network card and all good. Phew!

As a side note, I have just started out with linux and think I have learned more about how linux *works* by installing Gentoo than I have with 2months of Suse (which, I guess, says how user-friendly Suse really is).

Now I have to get Gentoo up and running. i daresay i'll be posting again v soon. Haha!

Thanks for the help.

Hello im facing the same problem as you, but i don't get where you configured the virtual network card support in the kernel. I'm using kernel 2.6.17 ( gentoo-sources-r8 ).

EDIT: Ok i misunderstood, i retrieved the name of the virtual network card trough lspci. In my case it was the pcnet32 module to be used. Thanks for your post.