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


On 8/6/07, Colleen Beamer <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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>
>


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