[SOLVED] Cannot connect to internet using 2008.0 livecd

the.drizzle · Last edited by the.drizzle on Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:28 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi all,

Sorry if this has been asked to death elsewhere, but I did search first--just didn't find anything that seemed to help

I am putting a fresh install on a an HP nx6110 laptop, which generally works quite well with gentoo. However, for some reason the 2008 installer is having trouble getting the network running. It has found the cards--both wireless and wired--and identified them correctly. What is unusual (to me) is that it has put the wireless card at eth0, but I can't actually use the service where I'm located, and put the Broadcom BCM4401-B0 card at eth1.

I have followed the directions in the manual, and net-setup eth1 tries to use the b44 module (correct), but ifconfig simply gives:

kevstar31 · Guru Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 405 Location: Ohio

Are you using DHCP or a static address?
Also can you post the output of the following commands:
route
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
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the.drizzle · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

I'm trying to use DHCP, as it has always worked in the past...

As for the output, I get:

twister666 · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

Did you try doing this:

#dhcpcd eth1 or #ifconfig eth1
(this often solved my problems with the network)

the.drizzle · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject:

Well, clearly I've already done that, as #/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start tries to run dhcpcd on eth1. If I explicityly do it myself, it simply hangs indefinitly, so that ifconfig gives the same output.
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kevstar31 · Guru Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 405 Location: Ohio

So what router are you using?
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while(true) std::cout << "Jesus I trust in you." << std::endl;

the.drizzle · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject:

Ah, the router! Maybe that's where the problem lies...

It is a D-Link 302G supplied by my my ISP. I know it works with the computer in it's current state, as it was fine until *I* broke the system, thus necessitating the rebuild. However, it has been years since I last rebuilt the OS on the computer in question, and have long forgotton if I had to do anything "extra" to get the network running. I don't recall having this problem in the past though...

EDIT:

Sorry, I didn't see in your earlier question the request for the output of route. Here it is:

the.drizzle · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject:

Still nothing, and I have resorted to doing the install offline, bringing each distfile over via usb stick as needed. This is not fun...

Any ideas?
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rrm74001 · n00b Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 14

the.drizzle · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, it is already as direct as it can get--ADSL to D-Link modem / router to computer.

This is making me bonkers!!!

(On the plus side, the rest of 2008.0 seems a lot nicer than any of the previous versions, so that I'm liking

)
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SeaTiger · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:08 am Post subject:

Did you try using static ip?

the.drizzle · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:24 am Post subject:

Ha! That did it--using the actual IP of my router, of course.

Now, and this is probably going to be the dumber question, how would incorporate the above into my /etc/conf.d/net file? That is, I now get:

SeaTiger · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:32 am Post subject:

In file /etc/conf.d/net

the.drizzle · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:28 am Post subject:

Thanks! I'm now up and running

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