Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage

[Drake Donahue]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drake Donahue" <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage


> does lsmod report any "tigon3" driver?

also
after livecd boot;
the last part of  a dmesg output should show eth0 and driver being linked

>
> ----- 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
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>
>>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.
>>
>> God Bless,
>>
>> Ryan A. Rice
>> Operations Manager / Senior Systems Engineer
>> i*hydra, Where Price and Power Converge.
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>> rrice@××××××.com
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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
>>>>> Toll Free: (866)-433-1238
>>>>> Cell: (207)-333-1258
>>>>> Fax: [phone]
>>>>>
>>>>> +---------------------------------+
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +---------------------------------+
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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