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From: Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:34:22
Message-Id: 200511062225.28475.tcoulon@decoulon.ch
1 Hello,
2
3 I had tried Gentoo two years ago and now I'm back after some time using a
4 Debian derivate (is still my main system for the time being).
5
6 I spent quite a time emerging and compiling from a stage 2 and most things
7 seem to work well. There are two little things that don't work just the way
8 I'd like however and I could not figure out how to cure them so far:
9
10 - I have a Ti4200 Nvidia card. I compiled my kernel with genkernel --configure
11 and (I think) did everything required to have framebuffer support but I can't
12 get a splash screen to work. Well, that's not important so I go for a text
13 boot, no problem, but I'd love to have a good information about
14 framebuffers.... anyone know where I should look?
15
16 - my main problem was that, while my netwrok would start OK, the default
17 gateway would not be set, I had to do it by hand. The informations I found
18 were about /etc/conf.d/net but this file seems ok:
19
20 config_eth0=( "192.168.1.31 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
21 route_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.1.51" )
22
23 other sources talked from an /etc/conf.d/route , but that file does not exist
24 and I have no clue as to its syntax.
25
26 What I did now was to add he following into local.start:
27
28 route add default gateway <IP>
29
30 But I think this is not the best way to do. Were should I put that default
31 gateway information so that it works?
32
33 Thierry
34
35 --
36 The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
37 capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
38 safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
39 Frank Zappa
40 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem John Jolet <john@×××××.net>