Gentoo Linux

[dadneumann at adelphia.net]

Hi, Dege!
I used Gentoo on my dual PII box for awhile, but I didn't have 
anything like that happen.  Of course, my onboard NIC's an 
EtherExpress Pro 10/100, and it seems EVERYTHING autodetects 
that, even Slackware!  
I ran into a motherboard w/ onboard sound and NIC's once where 
they sometimes would conflict if the BIOS settings were not exactly 
correct.  Gees!  That's gotta be 3-4 years ago that I ran into that.  
It's all I can think of.  Might be worth looking into.
BTW, be sure you're very generous w/ /var partition size!  When I 
did the first install, it totally wiped because it ran the 50 Meg /var 
totally out of room!  I soft linked /var/temp to a bigger, less crowded 
partition and it worked fine after that.

I'm sure you did this, but did the install readme offer any pointers?  
As I recall, they went into detail on how to handle several odd 
network configs.

Gentoo was cool enough to almost move me away from Slackware!
-Greg

On 20 Jan 2003 at 22:26, Robert Dege wrote:

> 
> Is anyone out there using Gentoo Linux?
> 
> I'm having some issues, and am looking for some advice, or someone that
> was in the same boat :) I have a Mini-PC (Shuttle SK41G), with onboard
> RJ45/Sound/Video/etc, etc.
> 
> When I use the LiveCD (rc2), I am unable to get the RJ45 port to correctly
> identify & work.  It's a Realtek chipset & uses the 8139too.o module.
> 
> When the LiveCD boots, it fails to identify the chip & loads several other
> non-related network modules.  After I correctly load the module, dmesg
> shows that it's correctly detected.
> 
> When I run dhcpcd eth0, it pauses for a bit & then nothing.  If I
> manually set the IP/netmask/gateway info, I can see the config via
> ifconfig.  But ping fails on everything except localhost & the eth0
> assigned IP.
> 
> Both RedHat 7.3, and Knoppix have been used, and both correctly identify &
> assign a DHCP address to this Realtek chip.
> 
> Sorry for the length.  But it's a LiveCD, with limited debugging tools (no
> tcpdump, strings, syslog, etc).  And the CD requires an internet
> connection to continue the installation.
> 
> Dege
> 
> So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> .... If They Weren't Happening To Me
>