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From: Paul <stenius@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:28:39
Message-Id: e7260b6e0708061117v3d1b46f5wc4a0828eb9e7c345@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation by Colleen Beamer
1 what is the output of ifconfig -a
2 does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp?
3
4
5 On 8/6/07, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >
7 > Hi,
8 >
9 > I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There
10 > were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last
11 > backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my
12 > desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I
13 > have. Yes, I know - different hardware.
14 >
15 > I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much followed
16 > all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I
17 > didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on installing
18 > Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the
19 > install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection
20 > works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I boot from
21 > the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is
22 > a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to
23 > "Help" when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot,
24 > I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no
25 > help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And
26 > before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf
27 > /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that
28 > last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of times
29 > I installed Gentoo!)
30 >
31 > Any ideas?
32 >
33 > Regards,
34 >
35 > Colleen
36 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>