[gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

[gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

[Colleen Beamer]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

[Paul]

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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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Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

[Colleen Beamer]

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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>
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

[Colleen Beamer]

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Colleen Beamer schrieb:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>  

Stefan, you are totally my hero, in an ethereal sort of way! ;-)  This
worked!  And another lesson learned - one of the many, many reasons I
*absolutely love* Gentoo - I've learned *so* much!

Thanks ever so much!  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Colleen Beamer schrieb:
> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Colleen Beamer schrieb:
>>   
>>> 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?
>>>     
>>  
> 
> Stefan, you are totally my hero, in an ethereal sort of way! ;-)  

I consider quoting this on my website ... ;-)

> This
> worked!  And another lesson learned - one of the many, many reasons I
> *absolutely love* Gentoo - I've learned *so* much!
> 
> Thanks ever so much!  :-)

I am happy it worked out for you.
Stefan
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