Ethernet not detected and stuck

[Arioch]

yes

I wanted to doublecheck the DNS settings - even though I know i got them right. Isn't the addresses supposed to be in the /etc/resolve.conf file? All that's in there is:

"# Generated by network manager, do not edit!"

Where are the DNS' addresses I typed during installation?

[mars]

This is a very good question; I use dhcp and the ip's of the nameservers i get from the dhcp-server and the machine uses are in /etc/resolv.conf

Have you by any chance checked thislink?

[Arioch]

I didn't search for "static" or "dns" because I knew I had my settings right. I didn't pick up on what could be wrong untill I realised that I could ping my way around internally, but not externally. Im actually quite surprised that Anaconda asks the user for the DNS settings, only to toss them away
But now we're this far:

#dns_domain_eth0="localdomain"
#dns_servers_eth0="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
#dns_search_eth0="state.ca.us co.santaclara.ca.us"
#dns_options_eth0=( "timeout 1" "rotate" )
#dns_sortlist_eth0="130.155.160.0/255.255.240.0 130.155.0.0"

"dns_servers_eth0" I'm assuming this holds the value of the primary DNS? Where/how do I fill in the secondary DNS?

dns_search_eth0="state.ca.us co.santaclara.ca.us" Is this default for everybody?

"dns_sortlist_eth0="130.155.160.0/255.255.240.0 130.155.0.0" What do I put here?

[Arioch]

Got IT! Just one minor detail: How do I stop Linux from overwriting resolv.conf when booting?

I just put in:

(Asterisks being my DNS server addresses)

search localdomain
nameserver ***.***.**.*
nameserver ***.***.**.**

No need to overcomplicate matters

Thanx for the assist guys, I look forward to being a productive member of the Sabayon community.

I can't post in the internal development forum, so could I get one of you guys to bring this issue to the developers? It's propably just a minor detail in anaconda, but it was a major nuisance to tumble with, and this kind of thing should just work you know.

Rock on.

[Arioch]

No details on how to prevent networkmanager from overwriting the/etc/resolv.conf file when restarting eth0?

[cvill64]

# rc-update del NetworkManager

[Arioch]

"rc-update del NetworkManager""

As far as I know, other users have tried this, and ended up with a network not running at all. The thread dealing with this is not publicly available anymore, and a related, older thread, based on another release, did not provide a working soution.

is it now completely unproblematic to run this command? If not, I need the detalis.

Edit: I figured what the hell, and just did it. So far no probs. Thanx.

[lxnay]

Arioch,
if you do that. YOU HAVE TO SETUP networking in the Gentoo way, aka /etc/conf.d/net (following /etc/conf.d/net.example).
Anyway just follow the howto in the HOWTO section.

[Arioch]

Did a "net-setup" as described in the static IP tutorial. Didn't have to perform any of the additional steps. I must admit I thought networkmanager would "just work", so I thought my problem was of a completely different nature. A bit ironic that a tool which is supposed to make something very userfriendly, actually creates the exact opposite situation.

Well, thanx anyway, much appreciated.

[navman]

Your problem sound a little like the one I had. Check networkmanager to see if wireless is enabled.