[SOLVED] Networking Information

SiKing · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: California

Hi all,

This is the last post from me for today. Sorry for the flood, but I (have permission) to work on the install only once per week.

The "8.b. Networking Information" section of the Install Handbook gives a lot of hints, unfortunatelly, not good enough for dumb 'ol me. As I mentioned before, I am using Knoppix to kick-start my machine. I assumed that I could simply copy /etc/conf.d/net from Knoppix into my /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d; unfortunatelly Knoppix does not have a conf.d. Could anyone give me a pointer as to what do I copy out of Knoppix in order to make this work?
For right now, I am doing this on a pretty easy environment: everything is automatic, DHCP, nothing blocked. But I will be doing this again on a machine that even Knoppix cannot auto-detect; the end result will be on a machine that is connected via ADSL, and in Knoppix I have to run the ADSL/PPPOE Configuration tool in order to get it to connect to the Internet.
Where do I look, and what do I tell Gentoo?

Thanx.

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

as far as i know knoppix it is using a completely different configuration mechanism than gentoo.
therefore you will not be able to use your knoppix network config in a gentoo environment, sorry.

SiKing · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: California

But I should be able to at least use it for hints, or am I wrong? Unfortunately I have no idea what to look for or where to look. :cry:

If anyone were at least willing to give me a starting nudge, I will go through it all and then write up some sort of WiKi / HowTo / thingie.

SiKing · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: California

Just in case anyone is reading this...
Now that I am emerging world, I have some time to flip through the rest of the manual. I found all my answers: in chapter "3.c. Manual Network Configuration" of the Gentoo Handbook.

Kick-starting my machine with Knoppix I had completely skipped this chapter the first time through.
RTFM and then ask, right? :roll:

wolf31o2 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject:

There's also /etc/conf.d/net.example, which gives all the options you'll want/need, especially on the ADSL machine. For a normal machine just using DHCP, a blank config works fine, as DHCP is the default.
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erik258 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject:

in other words, a good file to copy over into /etc/conf.d/net would be /dev/null
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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

SiKing · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: California

I eventually got all the answers I was looking for in the Gentoo documentation, of course:
Gentoo Linux Handbook: Configuring your Network
Gentoo Linux Handbook: Gentoo Network Configuration
I should have RTFM first. :oops:

Gentoo documentation really is very good.

Thanx!

d2_racing · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: