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If you look at the script it uses the .ethx part to figure out what to start. |
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On Wednesday April 19 2006 17:00, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:50 +0200, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: |
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> > Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > >The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux |
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> > >installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with |
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> > >the LiveCD. I've tried every trick I know. At this point he's booted |
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> > >with the LiveCD and entered his chroot install environment. Out of |
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> > >desperation for some way to find what the problem is, I asked him to |
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> > >take a look at ifconfig. According to what he told me, eth1 has an IP |
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> > >address, but there's no mention of eth0. In the past he's told me that |
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> > >the PC he's installing Gentoo on has a wired NIC and a wireless NIC. I |
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> > >assume this is why his network card is assigned eth1, and that the |
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> > >wireless card is eth0 and the LiveCD doesn't support it. The handbook |
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> > >says that if multiple network interfaces exist, one can create symlinks |
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> > >to /etc/init.d/net.eth0 for each successive network interface. My |
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> > >question is if I tell him to rc-update add net.eth1 default and then to |
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> > >symlink /etc/init.d/net.eth1 to /etc/init.d/net.eth0, when he reboots, |
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> > >won't Gentoo just try to start /etc/init.d/net.eth0, which won't work at |
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> > >this point? What should I do? I've told him what the handbook says, |
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> > >but I'm not sure that it will work. |
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> > |
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> > Hi mike, |
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> > It should be the other way around: first the symlink, then rc-update |
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> > otherwise rc-update won't find the /etc/init.d/net.eth1script when it |
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> > will attempt to add it to the default runlevel. |
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> > Also, is the IP asignment properly set up ? (DHCP, static IP ?) |
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> > Good luck, |
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> > Maxime |
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> We did it in the correct order. He's rebooted into Linux (sans LiveCD) |
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> and says he has network. I'd still like to know how |
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> if /etc/init.d/net.eth1 is pointing to /etc/init.d/net.eth0, how does |
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> Linux know to start eth1 instead of eth0? |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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