Can't connect to the internet during install

archer75 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2002 Posts: 44

When trying to do an emerge sync or download a stage tarball it appears Gentoo cannot connect to the internet. Even though when I do a ifconfig it appears to be functioning fine.
I did notice that the module I use for my Linksys ethernet card is not present. That module would be tulip. I've installed gentoo 1.1 before and it had the tulip module. Is it because I am using the UT2003 live cd? Should I just use the regular live CD?

rac · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 10:39 pm Post subject:

The tulip driver should be included in that kernel. If ifconfig says eth0 is up, it shouldn't be a driver problem. Could it be a gateway problem, or a nameserver problem? Can you ping outside hosts by IP address? For example, forums.gentoo.org is 66.250.107.251.
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archer75 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2002 Posts: 44

"Can you ping outside hosts by IP address? For example, forums.gentoo.org is 66.250.107.251."

I'll give it a shot. I tried pinging www.gentoo.org but with no luck. I should also add that i'm on cable internet, attbi to be exact. So it should be a simple dhcp setup.

archer75 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2002 Posts: 44

I had to configure dhcp manually during install for it to work. Install completed and I have booted into gentoo! Problem is, no network. During boot I get the error:
eth0:unknown interface:No such device

This is the last problem I have. Once I get this fixed I'm off to configure X.

rac · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 8:00 am Post subject:

Did you remember to include the tulip driver when you compiled your kernel?
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archer75 · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2002 Posts: 44

Yes, the tulip driver was compiled into the kernel. I went back to verify as well. Still no go.
So I recompile the kernel, this time with tulip as a module. Now during boot I no longer recieve those errors:

eth0:unknown interface:No such device.

But I still cannot connect to the internet.

rac · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 8:39 am Post subject:

Is it possible that you forgot to mount /boot when copying your new kernels over?
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DRosenthal · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 17

I just built a system where the NIC kept working it's way out of the PCI slot. Trying to figure out why I would be able to connect to the network until I'd I'd reboot was driving me nuts. Maybe something similar is going on with you?

David