On 5/11/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 May 2005 17:11, cfk wrote:
> > Gentlemen:
> >  I have my stage 3 gentoo system booting after a little resolv.conf issue
> > earlier.
> >
> >  X-Windows is next.
> >
> >  I tried "emerge kde" and "emerge xorg-x11", but both of them stop fairly
> > quickly saying:
> >
> > "Couldn't download libpng-1.2.8.tar.bz2. Aborting"
> >
> >  Would anyone be willing to help me through my lack of the portable network
> > graphics library on my new gentoo system?
> >
> > Charles Krinke
>  Let me reply to my own message as I think the problem is earlier then emerge.
> 
> After finishing the installation, I cannot seem to bring the eth0 interface
> up. When I try to manually "ifconfig eth0 <addr> <broadcast> <netmask> up", I
> get a message of "no such device".
> 
> So, I must have foobarred another incantation along the way.
> 
> It was working fine in the chroot environment an hour or so ago, so I suspect
> something in the last stages of the install.
> 
> What are the sort of things I can do to diagnose this sort of problem. Mostly,
> I am questing for knowledge right now.
> 
> Charles

lspci to understand what hardware
lsmod to understand what modules are loaded
modprobe foo to get a module loaded to support the adapter

vi /etc/conf.d/net to look at what the system is trying to do with the
hardware when the scripts are run

post some more info back (if you can) and then folks will help you
take the next step.

Good luck,
Mark

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