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On Thursday 25 October 2007, Jonathan Haws wrote: |
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> I am running Gentoo on a Sager NP5560 and am having a nightmare getting |
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> the networking to work right. I finally have the Intel 2915ABG card |
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> working just fine, but I cannot seem to get the Ethernet to work at all. |
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> I have configured it for DHCP and it will not get an address. I have |
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> other systems on the same network that get DHCP addresses just fine |
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> (WinXP and Suse Linux). Here are some specs: |
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> Kernel: 2.6.20.1 |
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> Gentoo Linux |
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> Ethernet card: Realtek card using r8169 module |
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> Any ideas? The /etc/conf.d/net file is very basic. All is has is |
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> config_eth1=("dhcp") then the wireless stuff. I could get eth1 to work |
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> if I manually assigned an address, but now that doesn't work either. |
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> Any help is appreciated. |
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You're sure that the Ethernet card is eth1 and not eth0? |
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> |
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