Graphical installation from the live CD

[horia]

I booted my machine with the gentoo 2006.1 live CD in order to install the OS on my clean, new hard disk drive.
During the boot, the live CD correctly identified my networking card: the VIA VT6102 rev 74.
At the login screen, it prompted me for the username and password. The user gentoo automatically logged in to the GUI and I tried browsing the web to see if my network was working. Google and Yahoo could not be found by the browser.

I pressed CTRL+ALT+F1 and it took me to the console window, which was allready logged in as root.
I typed lspci to see if my VIA was still listed. It was. So I typed ifconfig to see if anything besides lo was listed. Only lo was listed.
I came to these forums and did a few searches, read a handfull of threads, and then typed dhcpcd eth0. I waited approximately 1.5 minutes and then got the message: Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response.
Finally, I shut down the system, disconnected my DSL modem and my Linksys WRT54GS router. Then I reconnected the router and modem, and booted up the live CD again. I went back into the console and I typed net-setup eth0 and, after the wizard finished, I followed its instructions and typed ifconfig to see if my interface was listed. It was listed. I then tried to ping my DSL modem and got the response: Network is unreachable.

I did one last dhcpcd eth0, which was returned by another timout error, and then I came here and posted this thread.

Please help me get my live CD to connect to the network, and to connect to the internet. I am pressed for time and any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Dlareh]

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[horia]

Yes, it does.

lsmod gives via_rhine 16772 0

And, I wasn't specific enough. ifconfig -a does show my eth0, along with my lo.

[horia]

Update :::

I talked to the linksys tech support team and they said that their routers only work with windows and macintosh machines. I know better than that; but I realized they wouldn't help so I took matters into my own hands.

After restoring default configs and performing a hard reset, I installed the tarifa b029 firmware onto my linksys router. Now, my router sees both the windows and the linux machines and it dhcp broadcasts to all of them.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tarifa/