No networking with live cd.

snuck · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 40 Location: to your left

Ok, I tried to install gentoo, for use as a firewall on an old cyrix box, but I think it was broken, because under debian I got kernel panics when I tried to compile a new kernel, and, unless I do a stage 1 (which fills up my very small /var on my very small hard disk) I get kernel panics when I emerge anything. So I switched to another box I had lying around, and I boot with the live cd, but have no networking.

It has 3 network cards, the same ones that were in the cryrix box, and is on the end of the same piece of cat5. The rest of the network works fine. "/etc/init.d/net.eth0" gives
"Bringing up networking...
failed"

Or something very similar, (I'm not sure, as I'm at work now).

"net-setup" gives no errors
neither does "dhcpcd eth0"

ifconifg only shows me lo, but ifconfig -a shows all 3 amoungst all the other things, so it knows they're there. I took all but one network card out, but that still didn't work. I'm somewhat lost.

Thanks for anyhelp...
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OddFox · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:03 am Post subject:

First off, what LiveCD are you using?

Second, sometimes the modules required for normal operation aren't loaded on startup on the various LiveCDs I use (Alright, I only use the Gentoo experimental LiveCD w/KDE & GNOME) and I have to load them up myself, but everything works fine after that. A minor problem, though, that I've encountered is sometimes I have to initialize my internet-connected network interface last, after any others, or my internet doesn't work.
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snuck · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 40 Location: to your left

Thanks for the quick reply...

I'm not sure what live cd it is off hand (at work...), it's a few months old though, from maybe August, but I just had it lying around so I used it.

The thing is though, everything worked fine on the cyrix box. So I don't see why it wouldn't load everything correctly in this case. Only one of the network cards is currently in use.

snuck
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