Richard Fish wrote: > IIRC, eth0 on the live CD can be a IEEE1394 ethernet bridge, if you > have a firewire port in the PC. The UNSPEC and 'weird' hardware > address are indicative of this.
Good timing of yours, I just wanted to boast a bit about getting to the bottom of the problem myself (after I leaving the machine alone for two hours to get a fresh mental start on things). ;-) It seems that booting from the "Minimal" CD indeed maps two FireWire devices first. The mainboard's IEEE 1394 becomes attached to eth0, and eth1 is the FireWire port of a SB Audigy card. The network controller is available as eth2 after loading the modules, which I didn't expect. %-P I have since installed Gentoo 2006.0, compiled my own kernel and ten minutes ago the machine properly booted for the first time with the Yukon controller as eth0. Hooray! I've started "emerge --update --deep world", and when it is finished, I'll try to figure out exactly which modules can be used to access the network controller (sk98lin, skge or sky2). -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
