Now networking

Poecilotheria · n00b Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 12

-Gentoo installed and running.
-Ive got the hang of mnt/dev

Now im trying to connect to the net, so far with no luck.

Im running through a router.
eth0 is detected and seems to be functioning.

lspci lists eth0 as 'Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905c- TX/TX-M [tornado] (rev 7

'

grep -i e100 /usr/src/linux/.config comes up as 'no such file or directory'

There is no '/usr/src/linux' but I can cd as far as /src

There doesnt seem to be a /ect/conf.d/net

input: rc-update add net.eth0 default
output: *net.eth0 added to runlevel default
*rc-update complete

Where do I find the network settings ?
Can I ping the default gateway ?

mexica · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

Have you issued the command /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start? From there, it should get an IP via dhcpd. One thing I ran into was I had to install dhcpd first.

The strange thing is, if you're fully installed, you should have a kernel in /usr/src/ cd to it and just ls. if there is is a kernek tree there, you can ln -s kernel-****** linux.

Hope this helps!

Michael

Poecilotheria · n00b Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 12

Odd I tried ' /etc/init.d/net.eth0' it came up with: 'Normal options' 'flags' 'config files'
The interesting thing is the config files list /ect/conf.f/net.lo and /ect/rc.conf... files I think are something lol :p nevermind.

cd to /usr/src/ ls coms up with nothing, its empty. ls -l = total 0

Does this mean something went wrong with the install ?

MACSRULETHEWORLD · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 131

Poecilotheria · n00b Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 12

The kernel isnt installed ?
I guess thats possible.
Is there a way to check specifically ?

Paapaa · l33t Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 955 Location: Finland

bjd · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:31 am Post subject:

First modify /etc/conf.d/net. Probably won't exist til you create it, the handbook describes the format and there is IIRC a /etc/conf.d/net.example file. This defines whether you get your IP via DHCP or statically, and if statically you define in here your IP and gateway.
/etc/resolv.conf stores your nameserver addresses, which you should get from your ISP.
If you use DHCP to get an IP you need to emerge dhcpcd.
You've added the net init script to the default runlevel, which will start it on next boot. To start it manually issue "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start"

I see you are looking for the e100 module for you card. Thats for Intel NIC's, the module you need is probably 3c509

Whats the output of "ls -l /usr/src" ? If the kernel source is missing (strange...) then you can just re-emerge it.

Good Luck

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