Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage

[Drake Donahue]

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
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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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