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Paul wrote: |
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> what is the output of ifconfig -a |
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> does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp? |
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ifconfig -a shows the device just fine. And for what it's worth, I |
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rebuilt dhcpcd while I was in the chroot'd environment. |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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> On 8/6/07, *Colleen Beamer* <colleen.beamer@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:colleen.beamer@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to |
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> boot. There |
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> were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my |
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> last |
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> backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my |
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> desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 |
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> that I |
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> have. Yes, I know - different hardware. |
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> I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much |
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> followed |
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> all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I |
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> didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on |
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> installing |
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> Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the |
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> install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection |
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> works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I |
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> boot from |
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> the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The |
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> card is |
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> a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to |
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> "Help" when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I |
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> boot, |
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> I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no |
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> help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And |
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> before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf |
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> /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that |
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> last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of |
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> times |
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> I installed Gentoo!) |
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> Any ideas? |
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> Regards, |
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> Colleen |
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