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realc
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I finnaly got gentoo runing under vmware, and i use a NAT to share my ip with my vmware. now when i booted gentoo off the cd it automaticaly configure my network and the what not. My question is: what do i do to get it to work now that im not booting off the cd, because it doesnt auto config that now. any help would be appreciated.
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pjp
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When compiling your own kernel, you have to manually add networking support for your NIC.
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slartibartfasz
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what does not work - the NIC or the net?
please provide the output of the following commands:
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ifconfig -a
dmesg | grep eth
route
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realc
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject: hmmmmz.... |
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lets see here...
ifconfig -a <---- nothing but my loopback address
dmesg | grep eth <----- nothing at all
route <-------nothing really |
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braindead0
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| What kind of network card do you have (PCI, ISA?, Other?). |
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r0cket-
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: hmmmmz.... |
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lets see here...
ifconfig -a <---- nothing but my loopback address
dmesg | grep eth <----- nothing at all
route <-------nothing really |
If it's not too big of a deal, you might boot off the install CD and dmesg from there. Should tell you what kind of NIC you have, and what driver is being used for it. |
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braindead0
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or simply cat /proc/pci | more (assuming it's a PCI network card)
That should list all PCI devices and detailed information, find your nic and that should tell you what modules you need.
If you need to recompile the kernel, make all the network devices as modules so in case you add a card or make changes, you'll not have to recompile again  |
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realc
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| like i said its in vm-ware so it doesnt matter what is on your computer, it only will emulate one type of devise, example SCSI drive is Buslogic, even though i dont have buslogic drive. so i guess the real question is what does vm-ware emulate for a network card? |
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realc
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| like i said its in vm-ware so it doesnt matter what is on your computer, it only will emulate one type of devise, example SCSI drive is Buslogic, even though i dont have buslogic drive. so i guess the real question is what does vm-ware emulate for a network card? |
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realc
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 5:10 am Post subject: |
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doh!!!  i figured it out, but thanks alot guys!
dhcpcd eth0 |
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