Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

[Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>]

Paul wrote:
> what is the output of ifconfig -a
> does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp?

ifconfig -a shows the device just fine.  And for what it's worth, I
rebuilt dhcpcd while I was in the chroot'd environment.

Regards,

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