KDE Network Configuration [RESOLVED]

[ilovegentoo]

I looked around here but did not find exactly what I need to know.

I installed Gentoo 2004.2 overnight and today got X configured, KDE installed and FINALLY managed to get KDE running. I'm quite happy as this is my 6th or 7th attempt and the first in which I got to a GUI (KDE).

Since I installed everything from Stage3 and off the LiveCD I never configured any network settings at all. Now I'm sitting here looking at a mighty fine KDE desktop and wanting to proceed with updating and further installation but I require network access.

My system is an Athlon XP +3000 (about 1.47 GHz) with 1 Gig RAM. The network is integrated in the mobo. It is a standard Realtek RTL8139 type network adapter. I have broadband connection so all is ready, I just need to find out how to configure my network card to use the available connection.

Thanks

Edit:
I feel really silly about now. My network adapter was configured and set up just fine. I had simply forgotten to enter the following:

dhcpcd eth0

Once I entered this in my network pinged out perfectly and all is swell.

[hairyfeet]

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

Select Device Drivers->Networking Support->Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)->RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support

Recompile your kernel and edit /etc/conf.d/net

rc-update add eth0 default
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

HTH

[ilovegentoo]

Thanks for the additional information. Will definitely come in handy later. I had done "genkernel all" so aparently support for my eth0 was already there, just DHCP support had not been initiated.

[hairyfeet]

To do this the Gentoo way add the following to /etc/conf.d/net and DHCP will assign an IP to your network interface on each reboot:

iface_eth0="dhcp"

PS:Next time I'd better reload before posting

[ilovegentoo]

kewl. Just did it. Thanks!