[ILUG] Still battling Gentoo!!

[Darragh Bailey]

Quoting SnSmedia <scratchandsniffmedia at eircom.net>:

> Hi,
> Thanks for getting back to me.
> To answer the other suggestions I got:
> *Yes I can ping the IP address of the card.
> *The result from route
> Destination    gateway    genmask            flags    metric    ref    use
> iface
> 192.168.1.0    *            255.255.255.0    U        0            0    0
>    eth0
> loopback        localhost    255.0.0.0        UG        0            0    0
>      lo
> default            192.168.1.1    0.0.0.0        UG        0            0
> 0        eth0
> *I do not have a host.conf file and resolv.conf is exactly the same as live
> cd resolv.conf
>
> I have gone over my net file and I had made a couple of spelling mistakes but
> I fixed them and rebooted but still no joy. I used genkernel so forcedeth is
> part of kernel. I can ping from the live cd no prob. I have set the IP to a
> static one, I did not emerge dhcp if that makes a difference.
> Rapidly running out of hair!!--

try using ethtool to determine the state of the actual link. Very useful tool
pointed out to me a number of times. eth0 may be up but that doesn't mean that
the link is active and working.

--
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"