Gentoo Network Issue Help

[psenechal]

I'm going to put in a 2nd hard drive and mess around with this again. I'll try both suggestions...using the GENTOO sources and activating eth1 or eth2.

I guess the other question I'll have if I get the network card to work is my video driver. It looked like it was trying to force my system to use Nvidia drivers...do I have to install the ATI driver package before I attempt to install SageTV or will SageTV take care of this during the install?

Thanks for all the suggestions...I would really like to get this working.

[perfessor101]

Hello,
I've installed and reinstalled Gentoo several times over the last few months with custom kernels (also Centos and a coupla other distributions) -- {Problem with my HPT374 raid controller and the gentoo-sources kernel or a Maxtor drive -- 6 months old}

If you're using the minimal cd you have to specifically emerge dhcpd even though you have it running and working while in the livecd environment.

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9.f. Networking Tools

Optional: Installing a DHCP Client

If you require Gentoo to automatically obtain an IP address for your network interface(s), you need to install dhcpcd (or any other DHCP client -- see Modular Networking for a list of available DHCP clients). If you don't do this now, you might not be able to connect to the internet after the installation.

Code Listing 6: Installing dhcpcd

# emerge dhcpcd
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I missed that section once or twice since it said Optional ...

I don't know if it's the same with the graphical install since that won't complete on my system no matter how slow or how many times I burn it.

If you're already doing that, checking out the forums at www.gentoo.org can be helpful ... post your dmesg and lspci along with a few other things and people are usually quite helpful.

I can only offer limited help as I'm still trying to figure things out.
(What kernel is stable running mdadm with raid 5 and an HPT374 raid controller, or if I get a bigger case I can use that 13 inch 8 channel 3ware raid controller that won't fit in my extended case)

AND for ATI information with Gentoo there's a Gentoo Linux ATI FAQ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml and a Gentoo ATI Radeon FAQ http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/g...adeon-faq.html

Hope this helps,
Bobby

[psenechal]

Originally Posted by cbhatt

Hi all,
This might be too little or too late but I have a Via M10000 and when I did the initial install I have the exact same problem. the system could not start eth0 with DHCP. The problem is that eth0 is not the onboard NIC its something else (firewire???). The work around I used was enabling eth1 in the install wizard and everything worked great after that.

ding ding ding...WINNER WINNER!!

The network controller is actually eth1 on my system. I have firewire built in, so that is probably eth0 on my system as well. Reinstalled using Vanilla packages and enabled eth1 and it worked. SageTV installed...but doesn't work

Thanks cbhatt!!!

I'll be doing some searching tonight on my other 2 problems

1. Video - I have an ATI card and SageTV wanted to use Nvidia
2. Sound - I don't think the system recognized my built in sound on the VIA chipset.

If anyone has any insights, they would be greatly appreciated...otherwise I'll keep searching. Thanks everyone!

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You'll need to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use the ATI driver instead of nvidia. Depending on your graphic card, you might also want to emerge the ati drivers. (emerge ati-drivers)

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[psenechal]

No worries on the video...got it working. I might have to tweak the settings later, but at least it's displaying. I started another post on the audio issues I'm having now. Almost there...got network, got video, audio is the last part.

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Did you set the volumes properly with alsamixer?

After you do that you can save the settings with alsactl store

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