Networking problems

[cmuench]

I am having networking problems. I can do everything ok on the livecd but once I boot into my gentoo it says dhcpcd running and then it even finds an ip address. After I log in I can even ping google ok. Then when I went to do a emerge sync it just time out. emerge kde also times out. I used 2005.1 and genkernel. Thanks for your help

[d4rkwingduck]

tried pinging something local to your network first, like your router ?

[Maedhros]

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[cmuench]

I can't ping anything after about 30 seconds noghing works. at for networking
Please help me as I am on a deadline for tomorrow night. thnaks

[m_sqrd]

first do
dmesg |grep eth
if there is nothing there you do not have the driver for you NIC loaded
if you compiled it as a module try modprobe ${your_nic_driver_name) example -> modeprob e100
if that works then you need to edit and update your /etc/modules.autoload.d/your_kernel_version {2.4 or 2.6}
most likely /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

if that dose not work you need to recompile your kernel and modules to include you nics driver.


if the dmesg show eth0
then you need to check that you
ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0
try ls -asl /etc/init.d/net.*
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 21 14:46 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo
24 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24385 Aug 21 14:46 /etc/init.d/net.lo

and that you have a "/etc/conf.d/net" file configure see the file "/etc/conf.d/net.example"
and that you did "rc-update add net.eth0 default" use "rc-update show default" and see if that net.eth0 is there.

Hope this make some sence.

[cmuench]

You know what that didn't help at all thanks for your help though. I am redoing the inbstall and maybe this time I will get it right
I have a Cnet Pro200wl NIC and it wans't there by deafult at the kernel

[d4rkwingduck]

[cmuench]

I reded the whole install And I stuck in a 8129 NIC