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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet not working on new laptop (dell e6510)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:04:09
Message-Id: yu9ocfi7bgy.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet not working on new laptop (dell e6510) by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 At Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:59:56 -0400 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
2
3 > Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
4 >
5 >> At Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:19:58 -0400 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
6 >>
7 >> > Try dhcpcd or pump manually -- I bet its some imcompatibility between
8 >> > the software and the router.
9 >>
10 >> I tried dhcpcd and it times out on
11 >> "waiting for carrier".
12 >>
13 >> pump is not on the gentoo installation disk.
14 >>
15 >> Thanks for the advice; I will try grml next.
16 >
17 > This dhcp bug is a bug I have reported, bug # 284631 -- please add your
18 > comments to this bug -- including dhcp version, router brand, etc.
19
20 Done. (I can't find the dhcp version and can't boot it now since I have
21 grml booted).
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23 For grml I needed to turn off framebuffer and some acpi stuff. But it
24 has booted and I am starting to prepare the hard disk.
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26 Thanks for sending me to grml.
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28 allan