No network during install .. Netgear DG834v2 modem/router

CitizenErased · n00b Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 27 Location: Chch NZ

Hi

I have recently changed adsl providers and bought a new netgear dg834 v2 modem to go with it. It'd working fine under windows, and with my old modem it would be picked up and used fine on a network install of Gentoo also. However I am trying to reinstall Gentoo now and getting all sorts of problems...

On boot of the minimal install disk I see in the configuring hardware boot message:

network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP... [ok]

However if I try to do anything such as ping www.yahoo.com I get...

ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com

i ran lspic and I see...
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (Rev 02)

The card is an Intel PRO/100 VE and is the same card I was successful with earlier.

Any suggestions as to where to go from here, I'm unsure exactly where to go from here.

Thanks
Tony

xoomix · Guru Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 489

Does ifconfig show that you have indeed obtained an IP address? If you do a 'route -n' to see your gateway address, can you ping it? Do you have any resolver information in /etc/resolv.conf? Can you get an IP address (known to you maybe by doing ahost lookup on another PC) and ping by IP address? Maybe DNS isn't working, etc.