Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]

[Michael Sullivan]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 19:59 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> If you look at the script it uses the .ethx part to figure out what to start.
>
The script made no sense to me.  I'm not that good at shell scripting
anyway.
> On Wednesday April 19 2006 17:00, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:50 +0200, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote:
> > > Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > >The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux
> > > >installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with
> > > >the LiveCD.  I've tried every trick I know.  At this point he's booted
> > > >with the LiveCD and entered his chroot install environment.  Out of
> > > >desperation for some way to find what the problem is, I asked him to
> > > >take a look at ifconfig.  According to what he told me, eth1 has an IP
> > > >address, but there's no mention of eth0.  In the past he's told me that
> > > >the PC he's installing Gentoo on has a wired NIC and a wireless NIC.  I
> > > >assume this is why his network card is assigned eth1, and that the
> > > >wireless card is eth0 and the LiveCD doesn't support it. The handbook
> > > >says that if multiple network interfaces exist, one can create symlinks
> > > >to /etc/init.d/net.eth0 for each successive network interface.  My
> > > >question is if I tell him to rc-update add net.eth1 default and then to
> > > >symlink /etc/init.d/net.eth1 to /etc/init.d/net.eth0, when he reboots,
> > > >won't Gentoo just try to start /etc/init.d/net.eth0, which won't work at
> > > >this point?  What should I do?  I've told him what the handbook says,
> > > >but I'm not sure that it will work.
> > >
> > > Hi mike,
> > >
> > > It should be the other way around: first the symlink, then rc-update
> > > otherwise rc-update won't find the /etc/init.d/net.eth1script when it
> > > will attempt to add it to the default runlevel.
> > >
> > > Also, is the IP asignment properly set up ? (DHCP, static IP ?)
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Maxime
> >
> > We did it in the correct order.  He's rebooted into Linux (sans LiveCD)
> > and says he has network.  I'd still like to know how
> > if /etc/init.d/net.eth1 is pointing to /etc/init.d/net.eth0, how does
> > Linux know to start eth1 instead of eth0?
>
> --
>
> Brett I. Holcomb

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