On 17/06/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Mick; all the config files are as they should be (I deleted /etc/hostname and checked /etc/hosts), however the problem is still there!
I am not sure, but it seems that your dhcpcd is finding a number of servers on your network, offering IP addresses. When I run dhcpcd from a terminal on my computer I do not get anything back. It silently connects to my router (which is the only dhcp server in the LAN offering IP addresses). In my view this is not necessarily a dhcpcd problem because when you run the command from a console you get an IP address. So, it must have something to do with either the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 script, or the associated configuration files which the script calls. The default script should work straight out of the box so we are now looking for something being amiss with the /etc/conf.d/net and other config files. A critical symlink in /etc/conf.d/ which is not always installed is this link: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 11 2005 net.eth0 -> /etc/conf.d/net If this doesn't help it may be worth going through the current gentoo installation handbook, which will be up to date with regards to setting up your network.
| To overcome the boot problem remove net.eth0 from the default runlevel: | # rc-update -d net.eth0 Good! I hadn't thought of that; but of course it has to be temporary.
To start/stop your eth0 interface run: # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start | stop | restart | zap I assume of course that you do not have dhcpcd in rc-udpate default level, but you have net.eth0 default (as well as domainname) instead? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
