Networking

[Shizune]

So, I've just gotten my Livecd to work, made all the partions and stuff (this is my first time trying to install gentoo on my own) and when I come to the network part I can't get an IP from my DHCP
I've searched for ever on google and on this forum for similar problems and only found one thread that was almost like my problem.

I've look up what my network cards name is and its "Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T"

I tried some command "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start"

it does start up good but later on it says

"Network interface eth0 does not exist"
"Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver)"

This is where I don't get what im supposed to do since im new to the whole gentoo thing, I understand that I have to get some drivers for my card or compile it somehow but I cant see how I'm
supposed to do that.

And to add upp, when I started to compile at the very begining I did a do not compile command because some drivers where messing up.
I guess this is what made the network drivers not compiled.

when I do an "lsmod" I get:

"Module
8139too 0
rtc 0
usbcore 1"

if this is of any importance.

I hope you have some understanding as to what this problem is and hopefully someone knows what I need to do

[bafox]

The module is b44, Try this Driver
In the readme file there is complete information on how to compile it from source and install it.

But try to search for it in the kernel sources better.

[audiodef]

Just to be clear... you're still working from the live CD on the install?
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[Raistlin Majere]

Just shooting from the hip here , if your still using the live cd (kinda hard to tell from your post), it sounds like the livecd doesn't recognize you ethernet card. While there are ways to install stuff to make it work , The easiest way would be to find a livecd from another distribution that already works , then just take a look at these instructions, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml. That's one of the nice things about gentoo, you can install from almost any livecd or any linux system that is already installed. I use an ubuntu livecd on my laptop because it has the broadcom driver for my wireless card. Plus it's nice cause then you have a desktop to use while installing.

If you already installed and networking isn't working , then post back

[Shizune]

Oh im sorry if I didnt make it clear, i am still on the livecd, and if I were to change im not sure how to shutoff the computer, do i mount off or something first or just shutdown -h now?

Raistlin Majere: but if I use another dist doesnt that make it some other OS? as you might understand I am really new to this ^^

thanks for the answers will look in to that b44 driver Bafox

[bendeguz]

[Shizune]

Oh I see, well I'll just have to try some other then, although I have no idea where and what do get : (

[bendeguz]

[audiodef]

Get Sysresccd!

That's a common NIC. I'm puzzled you're having this issue, but I install Gentoo by booting with Sysresccd. net-setup eth0 has never failed for me. You'll also have a DE and Firefox while installing Gentoo.
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[Shizune]

[Raistlin Majere]

[Shizune]

Just a quick question, what do I do when I boot up ubuntu? do I just continue where i left in then gentoo guide?

Oh, and internet worked with this one

[bendeguz]

[Raistlin Majere]

just open a terminal , i think you want to do

[Shizune]

Thank you, I think I will get it to work now, I was just about to download the stage3 tar, but I am not sure what to get, the i486 or i686, Im on an old computer with an pentium 4 processor so im not sure
if its fast enough, but I'll test with the i686 and if I fuck up I guess I'll be back here hehe

What an surprise, problems right away, for some reason when I have downloaded the stage3 and I do the "tar xvjpf stage3***" command it says it cant open the file, "no such file or directory"
do I have to put it in /mnt/gentoo?

[cwr]

You need to put the download somewhere you can find it ... which is not as
easy as it seems. I've blown away downloads a couple of times by putting
them in a temporary directory which gets destroyed when I reboot.

Your system-to-be (if you're using the Gentoo installation docs) is under
/mnt/gentoo, because that's where you mounted the hard drive partition
which will become Gentoo's /. So if you are going to reboot before
unpacking the stage 3 file, the stage 3 file needs to be somewhere
under /mnt/gentoo. If you unpack the stage 3 immediately, of course,
you'll have built the Gentoo root filesystem and you just have to
remount whichever partition you were working on.

Will

[Shizune]

Thank you Will, but where in the command do I write the directory? cause now the file is on the desk, and I cant move it to /mnt/gentoo for some reason.
Should the command be like: tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 /dir here/?
Since it doesnt seem to find it on its own : /

This is what it says when I try the original tar command:

"tar: stage3-*.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors"

This would be a piece of cake for me on windows since I know where and how the dirs work on it, but on gentoo/ubuntu im not that good ^^

[bendeguz]

[Shizune]

[Shizune]

Whilst everything has worked fine I've come to another stop.
This time it is when I am compiling the kernel, I have emerged genkernel and i am going to use this command:

zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86/kernel-config

and yet again it says "No such file or directory"
So I guess that ./kernel-config haven't been created for some reason.. is there a way to create it?
I am in chroot now and I dont know if I have to be in the /proc/ dir to move it?

Also I did open a new terminal to get to the /mnt/gentoo dir to try to mount /mnt/gentoo/proc again but the error was:

"mount: none already mounted or /mnt/gentoo/proc busy
mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /mnt/gentoo/proc"

[Raistlin Majere]

That's because your using ubuntu. It doesn't have it , at least not under the same name. I didn't think about that before , never used genkernel. You should try to configure your own. It's really not that hard. Have a look at pappy's kernel seeds to get you started . http://www.kernel-seeds.org. Theres also a sticky in the unsupported section of the forums. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-801641.html. Also the gentoo kernel config guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-config.xml. And there is a section in the handbook too.

And when your configuring , here i believe is your network card. This is from a gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r7 kernel.

[Shizune]

Okay, so I managed to get thrue the guide, but when I reboot the computer to try it out and press the "Gentoo Linux 2.6.31-r10" thingie to boot gentoo up there's an error msg:

" root (hd0,0)
Filesystem tupe is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.31-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3

Error 15: File not found

press any key blabla"

So I understand that I must have missed some important file and all but how am I supposed to know what file? D:
anyone have seen this problem before?

[bendeguz]

[Shizune]

[bendeguz]

Let us know, if you succeed. Just don't give up, and fight for your gentoo system.