Networking works on livecd, but fails after install[solved]

[banderos]

Hi All,

I have just finished installing gentoo under vmware 4.0, natively running XP.

The network card was automatically detected and configured by the livecd on eth0.
Now physically eth0 is disabled on the actual machine as it uses a Belkin 802.11g wireless card, so I know vmware is emulating some other network card/driver to the "guest" operating system (this card would be eth1 if I was running linux natively).

How can I duplicate this config on my gentoo installation? I guess I need to figure out what module it is using and make sure that loads up, then do the usual /etc/init.d/net/eth0 stuff.

Can anyone help get me started?

cheers,

Ben C

[banderos]

Ok, somehow figured this out myself

So, for posterity:

'ifconfig -a' showed eth0 was in fact there, just no ip address.
'dmesg | grep eth0' and 'lsmod' gives the installed driver as pcnet32.

I added this to the autoload list (but figure it would get loaded anyway by coldplug) then reran /etc/init.d/net.eth0.

This time it worked, though it had failed twice before during reboot

Guess it was just one of those flakey wireless things stopping me getting an ip address from the WAP first couple of times.