I just installed kernel 2.6.3 because i just did thats why...

great news, my logitech mouse and keyboard are WORKING!! YEA....

But my 3Com 59x ehternet card doesn't seem to be working now. I mean
it works... im writing and sending this...it just doesnt seem to wanna
work in gentoo.

when i boot up i get this message...

" Failed to bring eth0 up
ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
"netmount" was not started

my /etc/conf.d/net is set on iface eth0="dhcp" because i have
"superquickinternetservice" (That is as long as im not in gentoo) and
thats just the way it is.

Doing a menuconfig for the kernel, all the dhcp places that i could
find and my particular nic card is checked...in fact, i checked all
the 3Com cards justin case. When that didnt work, i made modules outa
them thar...justin case...

cp'ed to arch, System.map and .config and still!!! nada

didaugh rc-update add net.eth0 default and my computer is a happy
camper.

seems others at gentoo forums got there's goin with rc-update n stuff
simple like that, but not me. IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME? Maybe
i shouldn't take this personally...Its got to be this COMPUTER! Its
driving me nuts!

Any suggestions and help would be very desirious or wonderfully
accepted since i cant spell desirious.

Thanks

So anyway, it was like, 08:41 CET Feb 21 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
lost @aol.com was all like, "Dude,

> great news, my logitech mouse and keyboard are WORKING!! YEA....
>
> But my 3Com 59x ehternet card doesn't seem to be working now. I mean
> it works... im writing and sending this...it just doesnt seem to
> wanna work in gentoo.

If you were previously using 2.4, you have to update

/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

to somewhat resemble kernel-2.4 in the same place. Adding "3c59x" to
it might be sufficient.

hth.

--
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. Perth ---> *
13:59:33 up 27 days, 21:36, 6 users, load average: 3.31, 2.76, 2.36
$ cat /dev/bollocks "echo y | format c:" Registered Linux user #261729
exploit robust technologies