DHCP Module not loading

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thidranki · Post by **thidranki** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:03 am

I just freshly installed Gentoo, and after a few hiccups in the install, I finally got things booted, save for one: the network.
I probably missed a step or something, but I dont know where, and maybe one of you could help in pointing that out.

I boot up and it says:

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*Starting eth0
*   Cannot default to dhcp as there is no dhcp module loaded
*   No configuration for eth0
* ERROR:   Problem starting needed services.
*                "netmount" was not started.

I used genkernel to compile, etc, and I can't emerge anything because I dont get connection.
Here are the printoffs of some files etc.:

ifconfig

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lo     Link encap:Local Loopback
        inet addr: 127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
        inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
        UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436  Metric:1
        RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
        RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

/etc/resolv.conf

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# Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth-
nameserver 192.168.46.2
domain homenetwork

Thats it. Any help would be much appreciated.

swooshOnLn · Post by **swooshOnLn** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:06 am

looks like your network card isnt installed.. is it?

thidranki · Post by **thidranki** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:08 am

swooshOnLn wrote:looks like your network card isnt installed.. is it?

I thought it was. Any way to know for sure/install it?

mdeininger · Post by **mdeininger** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:20 am

well, statically configure the network and see if that works, then get your hands dirty on dhcp?

try

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 # ifconfig eth0 up

if it fails with something like "there is no eth0", your card isn't installed

cyrillic · Post by **cyrillic** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:28 pm

thidranki wrote:* Cannot default to dhcp as there is no dhcp module loaded

It looks like you didn't do this step during installation.

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# emerge dhcpcd

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:12 pm

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security.

funboy.ch · Post by **funboy.ch** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:06 am

Was this ever solved? I have the same problem? How can I emerge dhcpcd now if I don't have a network connection? I am totally new to Gentoo...

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:29 am

boot off the livecd
chroot into your partition
emerge dhcpcd

lxg · Post by **lxg** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:34 am

funboy.ch wrote:Was this ever solved? I have the same problem? How can I emerge dhcpcd now if I don't have a network connection? I am totally new to Gentoo...

Do it as said above, or configure your card statically with something like

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ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255

funboy.ch · Post by **funboy.ch** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:47 am

cheers folks, that did the trick

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