Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote:
> I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I
> installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was
> preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from
> eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do a networkless
> install. The LiveDVD would load the r8169 module, but networking still
> would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). I used the LiveDVD to emerge
> the 2.6.19-r5 kernel. I installed the r8101 module from the RealTek
> site, and while this finally would allow me to see eth0 under my own
> environment (I could see it booting from the LiveDVD as well),
> networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). Looking
> around the gentoo forums I've seen suggestions to use either the r8169
> or r8101 modules (depending on which post I read) using a kernel
>
> >2.6.19 and <2.6.22, that finally the module may work. I don't have a
>
> spare gentoo box on which I can grab this using emerge. Any
> suggestions on how I can do this? My windows system has network
> access, and I can mount my windows partition. Is there a better way to
> get this NIC working?

install a recent kernel like 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 (just download the sources, 
unpack them in /usr/src, create the linux symlink). And use the in kernel 
r8169 drivers.

Don't use 'vendor' drivers if you don't have to!

>
> Actually my ultimate goal is to get my Marvell TOPDOG wireless NIC
> working, but it appears to me that I will need to get ndiswrapper and
> perhaps wine for this to happen, neither of which are on the LiveDVD.
> I'm hoping to get a network connection so I can get enough packages to
> update the system enough to get this working and solve other hardware
> issues resulting from me having a new laptop designed to work with
> Vista.

you might want to use the 2008-beta livecd for this - this way you don't have 
with a lot of very messy stuff (like expat). And wine is.. evil. Every 
release breaks something. If your stuff works at all.
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