emerge rsync problems.

[Stumpy]

I'm a n00b to linux and i'm installing gentoo. I'm experiencing diffuculties with the emerge rsync step.

I'm having this error:

[jadenjahner]

Did you setup your /etc/resolv.conf?
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I can't think of anything catchy to put here, so I'll just leave it blank.

[Stumpy]

I did not.

How do I edit that file?

[Stumpy]

Ok, I edited with nano, put my correct nameserver and I still get the same error.

[Stumpy]

I've discovered that I can NOT ping anything.

It tells me Unknown host.

[frocco]

I had that same problem, I had forgot to do this step:

# cd /etc/init.d
# cp net.eth0 net.ethx
# rc-update add net.ethx default

HTH
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Best Regards,

Frank

"row, row, row your boat, gentoo down the stream"

[Stumpy]

frocco,
I don't remember doing that step, I will go do it now. Thank you!

[Stumpy]

This step did not work.

I'm starting over and i'm reconfiguring my network.

I have a Netgear RT314 DSL router that has DHCP enabled. I do the DHCP setup, and it times out when looking for a DHCP server. Why is this?

[Kilian]

If you have multiple network cards (real or virtual), it's possible that you aren't using the correct one. Also, often cable providers will use DHCP but still expect your computer to set much of this information itself. If you have multiple cards, make sure you have the right one, eth0 isn't always your internet connection. Also try setting things up manually and seeing if that works.

[Stumpy]

I'm using 1 NIC card with ADSL.

I'll try setting things up manually.

Does anyone know how to find out my broadcast address network mask?

Again, thank everyone in advance for this superb help.

[Kilian]

Your broadcast address will typically be .255 on the same subnet as your IP;
that is, if your IP is 192.168.1.1, BCAST is typically 192.168.1.255

This is, of course, assuming an awful lot about your connection, but I feel pretty secure in these assumptions if you're on DSL :)

[phantasm]

Basically doing it manual may be bad if you are connected to a DHCP network, the ip you pick may be taken by someone else. Is eth0 up when you run ifconfig do you see it? Doing a dhcpcd should get you an IP. Try resetting the DSL modem and then using dhcp to get the info. Somethings I have to do that with my cable modem

[Stumpy]

The thing is I'm not directly connected to my DSL modem.

DSL Modem > DHCP Router (firewall) > Computers.

I've tried the dhcpcd and it didn't work. It tells me that the DHCP server timed out.

I can't even ping local IP addresses. *sigh* I really don't konw what i'm doing wrong.

[phantasm]

Are you able to look at the log files on your dhcp router? To see if it is even getting a request. Maybe Gentoo is sending something weird to it.

[phantasm]

Another thought, are you limited the IP address your alloted by your ISP. I know I am only allowed to have two outside IP's through my cable modem. Can any other computer get outside? Do you have any other computers you can test with the router.

[Stumpy]

The computer i'm posting with right now is going through the same router. There are 4 computers that are able to get to the internet with that router (and 5 if I get my computer on windows).

The router does work, but i'm doing something wrong with Gentoo... I think.

basically, all i'm doing is typing in: dhcpcd
that's it. It will refuse to work.

[phantasm]

Try ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up
then dhcpcd and see if all of those work and post errors if you get anything when you type ifconfig eth0 up or down. Other then that I am not sure for I am also new to Gentoo. Do you have any other Linux boxes on the this router. I know you said you had 4 other boxes one be at least windows.

[Stumpy]

I will go try that now.

I had redhat before gentoo, which worked fine online.

[phantasm]

If RH works fine then there is always the possiablity something being wrong with that Network card and or the kernel driver could be throughing up some errors. Do a dmesg and see if there is anything wrong in there and look at your log files to see if you find anything out of place. If you can replace the card with a known working card. After that I am afriad I am out of idea.s

[Stumpy]

Well, I disabled DHCP on the router, and setup gentoo for the static stuff. Everything now works perfectly, I can ping any website I want.

emerge rsync still does not work, however. I don't know why since I can ping any website including gentoo.org.

Is the rsync server down?

[Kilian]

The original message you posted looks like you either didn't edit your /etc/resolv.conf file, or perhaps forgot to copy it before chroot'ing. First thing I would do is double check and make sure resolv.conf has your DNS servers in it. File should look similar to this:

domain yourdomain.net
nameserver X.X.X.X
nameserver X.X.X.X

Make sure you have at least one valid nameserver entry in the file.

If all of that still doesn't work, you can try to wget the portage tree manually instead. Simply do the following instead of 'emerge rsync':

[Stumpy]

Emerge rsync finally started working, for no appearent reason!

Thanks everyone for the help!!!