Internet Connection

[sonya]

Hi all,
I am currently facing a problem with the RR4 Live-DVD.
I try to make the internet connection, but nothing will happen.
I have no chance to go in the internet.
Can somebody explain, in easy words, how to set the internet connection via router?

Thx for the help

[AnotherDave]

Give us something to go on here. What's not working? Usually, you set to DHCP and things "just work". See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=1&chap=3

[sonya]

Hallo AD,
I followed the link with the same result.

I used net-setup eth0, filled out all the data and when I try to ping it says: unknown host.

I tried it with the Gentoo Install CD und used net-setup eth0 and it worked. I am a little bit confused about that.

I dont know where I should look for a solution.

[slash]

Hey Sonya

What are you getting with ifconfig (sudo ifconfig)

[sonya]

Hope I will make no mistake, because I have to handwrite this

Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-10-Dc ...
inet addr:192.168.1.100 BCast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets: 34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueulen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:2950(2.8kb)

So for me it looks like that the term UNSPEC should be changed to ETHERNET.

Any ideas out there?

[sonya]

OK I found a solution.
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth1 up

thx for your help

[lxnay]

Hope I will make no mistake, because I have to handwrite this

Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-10-Dc ...
inet addr:192.168.1.100 BCast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets: 34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueulen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:2950(2.8kb)

So for me it looks like that the term UNSPEC should be changed to ETHERNET.

Any ideas out there?

Mumble... do you have Firewire on your mainboard? Try to disable it (only for install).

[sonya]

Hi lxnay,
I have no Firewire on Board.

But I will get an installer error:
Calling emerge: emerge -k grub
(performing install failure cleanup)

What can I do -
Any suggestions?

[lxnay]

Hi lxnay,
I have no Firewire on Board.

But I will get an installer error:
Calling emerge: emerge -k grub
(performing install failure cleanup)

What can I do -
Any suggestions?

Mumble... it seems that your internet connection is down?
you should solve this problem by downloading the upcoming version or providing the installer log file. In the meantime, try to start the installer and then download the .xpm.gz file from http://lxnay.no-ip.org/gentoo/gli/splash.xpm.gz and copy it to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles (when Installer has finished the DVD copy step).

[AnotherDave]

Are we talking about the DVD-based system, or the permanent system installed to hard disk? If the second, it could be because you need to select the NIC and add it in one of the dialogs in the GLI. It's easy to miss this step without noticing.