Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage

[Drake Donahue]

does lsmod report any "tigon3" driver?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Rice" <rrice@××××××.com>
To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage


>I just tried your suggestions.  Unfortunately they had no effect.
>
> It's not a DOA NIC.  I had RedHat on it earlier and was surfing the web.
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> God Bless,
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> Ryan A. Rice
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> Drake Donahue wrote:
>> other possible spellings Tigon3 or tg3
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drake Donahue"
>> <donahue95@×××××××.net>
>> To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage
>>
>>
>>> might try booting livecd and running:
>>> modprobe TIGON3 (or tigon3)
>>> net-setup
>>>
>>> possible doa NIC?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Rice" <rrice@××××××.com>
>>> To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:52 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage
>>>
>>>
>>>> The network did not work when the LiveCD was booted.
>>>>
>>>> In fact, the port is active because the external connection LED is
>>>> active, and my DHCP server sees the hardware, and passes along the
>>>> correct IP to the hardware's MAC.  It shows up as active in my DHCP
>>>> tables.
>>>>
>>>> In Gentoo, I have tried manually configuring it with ifconfig and
>>>> tried dhcpcd to no success.  I've also tried to set the
>>>> nameservers.  It says that the host name is unreachable when I
>>>> attempt a ping.
>>>>
>>>> God Bless,
>>>>
>>>> Ryan A. Rice
>>>> Operations Manager / Senior Systems Engineer
>>>> i*hydra, Where Price and Power Converge.
>>>> http://www.ihydra.com
>>>> rrice@××××××.com
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>>>>
>>>> Drake Donahue wrote:
>>>>> did the network work when you booted the livecd?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Rice" <rrice@××××××.com>
>>>>> To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:27 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, I've tried this and pretty much any other dhcp command that I
>>>>>> can think of.
>>>>>> What other information would be valuable?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> God Bless,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ryan A. Rice
>>>>>> Operations Manager / Senior Systems Engineer
>>>>>> i*hydra, Where Price and Power Converge.
>>>>>> http://www.ihydra.com
>>>>>> rrice@××××××.com
>>>>>> Toll Free: (866)-433-1238
>>>>>> Cell: (207)-333-1258
>>>>>> Fax: [phone]
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>>>>> Simon Stelling wrote:
>>>>>>>> Ryan Rice wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm having trouble getting my network connection configured.
>>>>>>>>> It's a Broadcom BCM5704C .  I can 'ifconfig eth0' and have the
>>>>>>>>> port information come back, but it won't DHCP what so ever.
>>>>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Also,  Is it possible to install Portage via CDROM rather than
>>>>>>>>> over the net?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What about if you just google up the question instead of giving
>>>>>>>> us nearly zero
>>>>>>>> info and expecting to throw the answer at you? Really, it
>>>>>>>> shouldn't be all that
>>>>>>>> hard.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> More info would be nice, but for the sake of argument, have you
>>>>>>> tried 'dhcpcd eth0'?  Or running whichever dhcp client you have
>>>>>>> to see if it gets you an IP?
>>>>>>>
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