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dufnutz
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 Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 5:04 am Post subject: finished installing gentoo, but no network |
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hello, I finished my install of gentoo and the kernel appears to be booting well. except for one error
| Code: | ERROR: Problem starting need services
"netmount" was not started |
i compile my 3com 3c59x into the kernel but I was confused with many of the files that required editing, and i think this might be why.
for /etc/hostname i was very confused and only put in
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exactly like that
for /etc/hosts i have it exactly as it looks in the install how-to including the same ip numbers (if i need to change these let me know, i'll try that)
in /etc/modules.autoload i had
but took it out because i compiled it into the kernel and it was giving me errors during boot up, let me know if i should put this back in.
Im at school which has a dhcp network. any other info you might need i'll try to provide. please be specific im a newbie to gentoo, i've installed linux before but never got far into it.. i want to be able to connect ot the emerge servers so i can start installing more software. thanks for any help |
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| My network didn't work after install either. I had to go back and recompile the kernel with a different/additional NIC support. Might check that out. |
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dufnutz
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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ok i'll give that a shot, i looked at device manager in my windows partition and noticed that I have a 3com 3cSOHO card, so i might have compiled the wrong nic module. I just want to make sure that Im running the compile correctly, the only time i've compiled a kernel is when doing it step by step with the install so this is what i think i need to do
(do i need to mount my /boot partition, if so how
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make menuconfig
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot
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soon as i get a confirmation on compiling the kernel i'll give it a shot. |
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STiAT
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same problem. May they should write that in their installation instructions that we have to activate our network cards as module or built in. i came from debian up to gentoo, i didn't know that, never compiled a kernel 
I will report too when it's done and working. I did forget to select the module
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STiAT
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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worked great!
thx 2 you
now go to soundcard install |
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dufnutz
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| in the menuconfig should my nic be configured as included or configured as a module? |
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| STiAT wrote: | | ... May they should write that in their installation instructions that we have to activate our network cards as module or built in. ... |
Well, for me, it appeared that there was a NIC selected during the compile, so I left it alone.
I assumed since the network was working up till this point, it had identified the card and selected the proper support. |
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dufnutz
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| Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I got everything fixed, turns out i didn't edit /etc/conf.d/net correctly, thanks for all the help |
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conger
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| Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 12:32 am Post subject: I made the same mistake |
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The mistake I made was to uncoment dhcpcd_eth0="..."
in file /etc/conf.d/net
DONT DO THAT!
# For DHCP set iface_eth? to "dhcp"
# For passing options to dhcpcd use dhcpcd_eth?
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iface_eth0="dhcp"
#dhcpcd_eth0="..."
Could maybe use to add a warning in the file for next rev I spent hours trying
to figure out what was wong. It was good training I guess.
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