Getting DCHP with no net connection.

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Dana Merrick · Post by **Dana Merrick** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:28 pm

I've managed to find a catch-22...
I need dhcpcd to get internet, and I dont know how to get it without a net connection. How would I go about doing this?
I know its a kinda stupid question, but all I need is a simple answer...

Sorcerer'sApprentice · Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:49 pm

Boot the livecd.
Let this configure your internet connection for you.
Chroot as you did during the install.

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emerge sync
emerge dhcpcd

Dana Merrick · Post by **Dana Merrick** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:05 am

Wait, so, I do this.

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mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo/home
mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

To get dhcpcd, I then did:

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sudo emerge dhcpcd

But, alas, I dont have internet without dhcpcd, and it wants to connect to get the files. Therein lies the rub, I guess.
I've also tried

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PKGDIR="/mnt/cdrom/distfiles" sudo emerge dhcpcd

And many other similar things (like "-k") to no avail. I need more help.
Thanks a lot.

Tahoe_Strider · Post by **Tahoe_Strider** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:17 pm

I'm a little unclear as to what you mean by not having a net connection. Are you saying that you have an ethernet card in your machine that is attached to an ADSL(or cable) modem/router but when you boot from the LiveCD you get nothing? Or do you mean that you simply do not have the hardware necessary to establish a net connection? Would you mind booting from the LiveCD and posting the results from "ifconfig", "lspci", "lsmod", and "route"?

Dana Merrick · Post by **Dana Merrick** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:24 pm

I figured it out. I didn't even need to boot from the livecd.

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mount /dec/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/dhcpcd* /usr/portage/distfiles/
emerge dhcpcd -pv
(dhcp download is 0kb)
sudo emerge dhcpcd

And thats it!
Thanks guys.