No Networking with LiveCD

Richard Ruisi · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 2 Location: NYC

I am trying to install Gentoo but can not get my NIC to work. I tried all the steps in the installation manual and still no luck. I have a ADMTEK ADM 983 Linksys Etherfast 10/100 which worked in Mandrake using the tulip module. When I perform "ifconfig" I get:

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0(0.0 b) TX bytes:0 ( 0.0 b)

When booting the LiveCD it detects the NIC and starts DHCP.
My ISP does not require a host name and I am using a Linksys Cable Router. As you can tell I'm a newbie to Gentoo.

Please help me out...Thanks

Richard Ruisi

nadamsieee · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject:

Maybe running ifconfig is killing eth0?
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Richard Ruisi · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 2 Location: NYC

After numerous tries to get networking resolved I tried the Live CD on my main computer (P4) and everything worked without a hitch. I had DHCP, ifconfig showed everything, and I was able to ping

Seems to be a hardware issue on the previous computer

Thanks for the reply ...