Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote: I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do a networkless install. The LiveDVD would load the r8169 module, but networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). I used the LiveDVD to emerge the 2.6.19-r5 kernel. I installed the r8101 module from the RealTek site, and while this finally would allow me to see eth0 under my own environment (I could see it booting from the LiveDVD as well), networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). Looking around the gentoo forums I've seen suggestions to use either the r8169 or r8101 modules (depending on which post I read) using a kernel 2.6.19 and 2.6.22, that finally the module may work. I don't have a spare gentoo box on which I can grab this using emerge. Any suggestions on how I can do this? My windows system has network access, and I can mount my windows partition. Is there a better way to get this NIC working? install a recent kernel like 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 (just download the sources, unpack them in /usr/src, create the linux symlink). And use the in kernel r8169 drivers. Don't use 'vendor' drivers if you don't have to! Actually my ultimate goal is to get my Marvell TOPDOG wireless NIC working, but it appears to me that I will need to get ndiswrapper and perhaps wine for this to happen, neither of which are on the LiveDVD. I'm hoping to get a network connection so I can get enough packages to update the system enough to get this working and solve other hardware issues resulting from me having a new laptop designed to work with Vista. you might want to use the 2008-beta livecd for this - this way you don't have with a lot of very messy stuff (like expat). And wine is.. evil. Every release breaks something. If your stuff works at all. Another thing to consider if your card is seen by ifconfig (i.e. you probably have found the right driver for the card) but dhcpcd still times out: you may need to recompile the dhcpcd client with the vram USE flag. Some dhcp server implementations won't play nicely without it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?
I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do a networkless install. The LiveDVD would load the r8169 module, but networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). I used the LiveDVD to emerge the 2.6.19-r5 kernel. I installed the r8101 module from the RealTek site, and while this finally would allow me to see eth0 under my own environment (I could see it booting from the LiveDVD as well), networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). Looking around the gentoo forums I've seen suggestions to use either the r8169 or r8101 modules (depending on which post I read) using a kernel 2.6.19 and 2.6.22, that finally the module may work. I don't have a spare gentoo box on which I can grab this using emerge. Any suggestions on how I can do this? My windows system has network access, and I can mount my windows partition. Is there a better way to get this NIC working? Actually my ultimate goal is to get my Marvell TOPDOG wireless NIC working, but it appears to me that I will need to get ndiswrapper and perhaps wine for this to happen, neither of which are on the LiveDVD. I'm hoping to get a network connection so I can get enough packages to update the system enough to get this working and solve other hardware issues resulting from me having a new laptop designed to work with Vista. -- Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?
On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote: I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do a networkless install. The LiveDVD would load the r8169 module, but networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). I used the LiveDVD to emerge the 2.6.19-r5 kernel. I installed the r8101 module from the RealTek site, and while this finally would allow me to see eth0 under my own environment (I could see it booting from the LiveDVD as well), networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). Looking around the gentoo forums I've seen suggestions to use either the r8169 or r8101 modules (depending on which post I read) using a kernel 2.6.19 and 2.6.22, that finally the module may work. I don't have a spare gentoo box on which I can grab this using emerge. Any suggestions on how I can do this? My windows system has network access, and I can mount my windows partition. Is there a better way to get this NIC working? install a recent kernel like 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 (just download the sources, unpack them in /usr/src, create the linux symlink). And use the in kernel r8169 drivers. Don't use 'vendor' drivers if you don't have to! Actually my ultimate goal is to get my Marvell TOPDOG wireless NIC working, but it appears to me that I will need to get ndiswrapper and perhaps wine for this to happen, neither of which are on the LiveDVD. I'm hoping to get a network connection so I can get enough packages to update the system enough to get this working and solve other hardware issues resulting from me having a new laptop designed to work with Vista. you might want to use the 2008-beta livecd for this - this way you don't have with a lot of very messy stuff (like expat). And wine is.. evil. Every release breaks something. If your stuff works at all. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
Hi, On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 07:24:51 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the /etc/resolv.conf file, I have: search belkin nameserver 192.168.2.1 nameserver 207.69.188.185 nameserver 207.69.188.186 nameserver 207.69.188.187 Given that the router runs a local DNS (caching) server, that should be alright. route -n returns Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MetricRef Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 looks good. Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva Linux boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns [...] The main difference is that the metric column is all 0 on my non-working install, and I'm missing the 169.254.0.0 row from route -n That doesn't matter. That 169.254.0.0 subnet is the Windows autoconfiguration range (when there's no DHCP server, but IP address gathering is set to automatic) and the metric doesn't matter because you don't have concurrent routes. I'm not using genkernel. Is it possible that a kernel misconfiguration is responsible for the problems I'm having? Unlikely, because in that case DHCP wouldn't work at all. Maybe the Belkin is blocking your pings? Maybe the Belkin is misconfigured and does not have Internet access? Maybe some firewall, either on the Belkin or on your Gentoo machine (you can check by issuing iptables -vnL)? You should also try to monitor traffic with tcpdump when issuing those test pings. BTW, you cannot ping http://www.google.de; since that isn't a domain name but a URL. But you probably *did* ping the domain name, didn't you? -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
After reading the comments at the top of the /etc/conf.d/net, a blank file will automatically use DHCP for any net.* scripts in /etc/init.d, so I commented out all the parameters that I'd added. The file then matches the one in the livecd boot-up that I used to install the OS. For the /etc/resolv.conf file, I have: search belkin nameserver 192.168.2.1 nameserver 207.69.188.185 nameserver 207.69.188.186 nameserver 207.69.188.187 route -n returns Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva Linux boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0U 10 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 eth0 The main difference is that the metric column is all 0 on my non-working install, and I'm missing the 169.254.0.0 row from route -n I'm not using genkernel. Is it possible that a kernel misconfiguration is responsible for the problems I'm having? Thanks Jeff -Original Message- From: Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 3, 2006 10:15 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:57, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. The network appears to startup eth0 correctly, obtaining a dhcp address from my cable provider via the router. Are you getting DNS and default route settings from the DHCP server? Your option 'nodns' means you'd need to have it set manually. cat /etc/resolv.conf should show the value of your DNS server. route -n should show your default gateway. Check that both values are sane. - Noven -- -- Novensiles divi Flamen -- Miles Militis Fons -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva Linux boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 10 00 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0U 10 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 00 eth0 Have you tried only entering config_eth0=( dhcp ) in your /etc/conf.d/net and leaving all the routing and dns setting to dhcpcd to sort out? Have you a complicating LAN arrangement that requires the nodns option? -- Regards, Mick pgpjZMRYQ5bKt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
Perhaps removing all the lines from the net configuration script was the key after all. It didn't work on the next boot-up cycle, but on the one following that, without performing any extra configuration steps, the network connection was operational :-/ I have a network. Now I can proceed with installing kde :-) The results of ifconfig and route -n are unchanged. Jeff -Original Message- From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 4, 2006 8:29 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva Linux boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 10 00 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0U 10 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 00 eth0 Have you tried only entering config_eth0=( dhcp ) in your /etc/conf.d/net and leaving all the routing and dns setting to dhcpcd to sort out? Have you a complicating LAN arrangement that requires the nodns option? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Networking problems
I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. The network appears to startup eth0 correctly, obtaining a dhcp address from my cable provider via the router. The problem is that I do not seem to have a network connection. pinging http://www.google.com produces no response. attempting to emerge x11-xorg gives a 'temporary failure in name resolution' pinging the router ip address similarly elicits no response. The etc/conf.d/net file contains dns_domain_lo=homenetwork config_eth0=( dhcp ) dhcp_eth0=nodns nontp nonis The /etc/conf.d/hostname file contains HOSTNAME=tux If I run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart, I get Unmounting network filesystems Stopping eth0 Bringing down eth0 Stopping dhcpcd on eth0 Starting eth0 Bringing up eth0 dhcp Running dhcpcd eth0 received address 192.168.2.4/24 Mounting network filesystems With the corresponding 'OK' comments on the right of the screen. Nothing extra appears in dmesg in response to this command. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks in advance Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:57, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. The network appears to startup eth0 correctly, obtaining a dhcp address from my cable provider via the router. Are you getting DNS and default route settings from the DHCP server? Your option 'nodns' means you'd need to have it set manually. cat /etc/resolv.conf should show the value of your DNS server. route -n should show your default gateway. Check that both values are sane. - Noven -- -- Novensiles divi Flamen -- Miles Militis Fons pgp6LD8nPAOZI.pgp Description: PGP signature
