> Cycled the system many times with pretty much the same result. Initially > dmesg was showing that ifconfig was failing due to some SMP issue so I > updated the kernel to 2.6.12.2 and installed and this failure went away. > > But now any boot results in the dhcp starting for eth0 but then failing > completely. > > When the system comes up I can log in as root and manually start eth0 by > running the dhcp command as /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start should be trying to > do (although I can't tell that it is doing as I suspect).
Don't know if the problem you're having is related to the one I had with 3rd party usb adsl modem init script but try to add related modules to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Sasha -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
