more network card problems, plz help urgent!

SRC_DoD · Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 172

ok so i've finally gotten gentoo installed. net works like a charm on the live cd.

i LSPCI and LSMOD'd and lspci shows realtek RLT-8139/8139c/8139c+

LSMOD shows 8139cp,8139too, and the mii modules being run on the live cd.

i've tried this with the network card, and mmi, both at built in and modules. ifconfig eth0 shows the device but no address. so i'm pretty sure the kernel is recognizing the device in either fashion (built in or module)

i edited the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 to have all three modules i listed above...however still no IP address!

i'm running behind a gov firewall and for somereason on boot up i get a message to the effect 'no modules to support 'dhcp'"

in /etc/conf.d/net i have iface_eth0="dhcp", can anyone help me out i'm screwed here...i probably just need to enter the gateway somewhere but dont know where

erik258 · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: not a problem

I have recieved that error message before.

Here's what's wrong: your initscript is configured properly to use dhcp, but upon trying to bring the interface up via dhcp it finds that you have no dhcp client daemon running on your computer.

The one i use is 'dhcpcd'

put back in the cd, mount /mnt/gentoo as you did last time, chroot /mnt/gentoo like last time, and then

SRC_DoD · Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 172

i was just about to try that. i think i have dhcpcd in my USE statement but oh well

erik258 · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: that's not what use does

just because it is in the use variable, doesn't mean portage is going to download and install software you haven't told it to. <smirk>

the use variable is for changing the options with which emerge builds packages you tell it to install. for example, you might compile a program with or without X support by putting X in the use variable in make.conf.

The use variable definitely doesn't make it so that the initscript net.eth0 knows to automatically download build and install dhcpcd or a suitable replacement.

in other words, use USE to tell emerge how to build pakages, "kde -gnome" or "gnome -kde" is a popular way to avoid one or the other window managers, these are defined per ebuild and you can't just put any old phrase in there, it has to be a valid use flag.