gentoo linux eth0 detection failed

its my first time install gentoo linux, previously i have been an
intermediate redhat user. I followed all the steps from the gentoo
linux installation guide, after rebooting, everything works fine except
for eth0. My network interface wont start up, or wont be detected. On
start up i see, lo up....[ok] however there is no eth0, which i am
familar to seeing in redhat. Once logged in, i type ifconfig and it
only shows lo but no eth0. In /etc/conf.d/net i have the following line
iface_eth0="dhcp". if i run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start it says
'Bringing eth0 up via DHCP ....[!!]' i have dhcpcd installed, however i
think the problem is that the eth0 device isn't installed, im not sure
on how to install eth0 on gentoo linux. My network card was detected
using LiveCD which gentoo uses for there installation, however after
rebooting into my gentoo system, it could no longer detect my network
interface.

thanks in advance

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> its my first time install gentoo linux, previously i have been an
> intermediate redhat user. I followed all the steps from the gentoo
> linux installation guide, after rebooting, everything works fine except
> for eth0. My network interface wont start up, or wont be detected. On
> start up i see, lo up....[ok] however there is no eth0, which i am
> familar to seeing in redhat. Once logged in, i type ifconfig and it
> only shows lo but no eth0. In /etc/conf.d/net i have the following line
> iface_eth0="dhcp". if i run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start it says
> 'Bringing eth0 up via DHCP ....[!!]' i have dhcpcd installed, however i
> think the problem is that the eth0 device isn't installed, im not sure
> on how to install eth0 on gentoo linux. My network card was detected
> using LiveCD which gentoo uses for there installation, however after
> rebooting into my gentoo system, it could no longer detect my network
> interface.
>
> thanks in advance

You need to load the module at boot time for your network card. Make sure
in your kernel config that you're building the module corresponding to the
card you have, then put that module in the modules autoload file. I have
a Intel gigabit card in my desktop so I would run this command:

echo e1000 >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

lspci will tell you which card you have.

Doug

according to lspci
Ethernet controller: Davicom semiconductor, Inc 21x4x DEC-Tulip
compatible 10/100 ethernet (rev 10)

so i looked up davicom ethernet drivers and it gave me the name tulip,
same as what is metioned above, so i did 'echo tulip >>
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6' like you said, now i get an error
on startup sayin that it could not find the module, and that it doesn't
exists. ; should it already be installed since it showed up on lspci
with the drivername 'tulip' becide it?