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From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:53:09
Message-Id: 46b76bf0.0f2b400a.7fdd.ffff8590@mx.google.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation by Paul
1 Paul wrote:
2 > what is the output of ifconfig -a
3 > does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp?
4
5 ifconfig -a shows the device just fine. And for what it's worth, I
6 rebuilt dhcpcd while I was in the chroot'd environment.
7
8 Regards,
9
10 Colleen
11 >
12 >
13 > On 8/6/07, *Colleen Beamer* <colleen.beamer@×××××.com
14 > <mailto:colleen.beamer@×××××.com>> wrote:
15 >
16 > Hi,
17 >
18 > I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to
19 > boot. There
20 > were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my
21 > last
22 > backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my
23 > desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100
24 > that I
25 > have. Yes, I know - different hardware.
26 >
27 > I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much
28 > followed
29 > all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I
30 > didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on
31 > installing
32 > Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the
33 > install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection
34 > works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I
35 > boot from
36 > the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The
37 > card is
38 > a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to
39 > "Help" when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I
40 > boot,
41 > I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no
42 > help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And
43 > before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf
44 > /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that
45 > last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of
46 > times
47 > I installed Gentoo!)
48 >
49 > Any ideas?
50 >
51 > Regards,
52 >
53 > Colleen
54 >
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