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kousetsu_daisuke
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 Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject: Why won't the network work? =( |
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Last night after i finish installing gentoo on my laptop. I had a few problems and while I was in between my last one and rebooting to fix it I had a working connection to the internet. After I finished fixing my problem, which was a problem in the grub.conf and had rebooted into my system, I no longer had a tangible connection through my network. I did a ifconfig eht0 and it showed I was being assigned an IP but any attempt to connect to the outside (such as a ping on yahoo) was not working. I tried to emerge packages as well and it couldnt connect to any of the mirrors.
I am not sure if this is a problem specific to gentoo or maybe its the netwrok configuration that I am running right now. But it worked, then stopped working. Also if I stick the liveCD back into the laptop and boot from that, things work properly again.
At the moment I have my laptop hooked through a wired switch, to a desktop running windows XP, which has a wireless Microsoft (ugh pain in the butt to deal with =/) USB card connecting to a router which is then hooked into the cable modem. In case that helps. |
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chrism
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe the default route is broken. Could you post your ifconfig eth0?
try to shut down eth0 and bring it up again by typing: "dhcp eth0".
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Tahoe_Strider
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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An output of "route" might be useful too if restarting your interface doesn't resolve it.
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chrism
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Tahoe_Strider wrote: | | An output of "route" might be useful too if restarting your interface doesn't resolve it. |
My bad, of course it would be usefull. I try to be more precise the next time.
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kousetsu_daisuke
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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hmm, I tried to do "dhcp eth0" and I got an unknown command error. Is it possible that I didn't instal dhcp correctly? I distinctly remeber dealing with that in the tutorial though. =/
The tutorial said to emerge dhcpcd which i did.
Hmmm some more headway: I ran the command dhcp and it seems that it reset eth0 for me. But will I have to do this everytime I start m laptop up? |
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chrism
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think you have to emerge dhcpd, since you don't want to run a dhcp server.
Have you put net.eth0 in your default runlevel? You can check that out by running:
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rc-update add net.eth0 default |
If it is already in there delete it first and then put it in again.
| Code: | | rc-update del net.eth0 default |
Another problem is if you have ifplugd or some simular programm running. Do you have a programm running which should detect wether a network cable is pluged in or not?
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