Haha! Just as a followup to "solved?" My new kernel does indeed load the
NIC drivers. I have an onboard Realtek "card." Without seeing a specific
listing for an RTL811/8168/8411, I just "shotgunned" it by installing
everything relating to an Intel board and Realtek ethernet. But,
nevertheless, despite a crude hack, I am on the net, and now I can, in
fact, do a BLFS creation from working LFS install! Cheers! I look forward
to a bit more "surgical" approach, but in the meantime, I have an OS I can
use. Love it.

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Richard G. Crockett <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Bruce, yes. It appears I do not have kernel support for my NIC card. A
> bunch of googling pointed right at that. I can fix that, I'm sure, by
> booting into Ubuntu and running a few commands to reveal what card I need
> support for and then rebuilding the kernel. "ls /sys/class/net" confirmed
> this theory. My card is not there. So consider this solved.
>
> Ken, I was indeed confused. I have kept a log of my whole LFS experience.
> My entry for configuring networking says, "Eyes melted, brain frozen. It's
> 2am, and I. Just. Can't." Haha. Did a lot of re-reading today.
>
> Still, when all is said and done, it's damn fun to have created a whole
> scratch system, and thanks so very much for the work that went into the
> instructions and the ongoing help.
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 12:00 PM, <
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>> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 02:41:46 -0700
>> From: "Richard G. Crockett" <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [blfs-support] Comcast Internet
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> Please forgive me if this is a duplicate of a question asked then thousand
>> times before. Usually I do not post to any forums because I can search the
>> answer, but this one has me stumped; further, I am only seeing this in
>> email. I do not even have a link to the forums! (Already I feel like an
>> idiot.)
>>
>> But, first, I JUST completed an LFS build. I gotta tell you it was a total
>> nerd orgasm to see successful boot into the new system on the first try. I
>> did it "by the book." It worked. But I have no internet! I configured my
>> my
>> NIC according to the instructions with a static IP address. Was that
>> wrong?
>> I think not because I get the same address behind my router with every
>> boot. HOWVER, I did note that when I executed the shutdown command, the
>> system complained about "eth0" not found as compared to the "enp3s0" as
>> revealed by "ip link" and carefully placed in my ifconfig.enp3s0. Should
>> that be "ifconfig.eth0?" Or do I need to enable dhcp on top of that?
>>
>> As per the subject line, my ISP is Comcast.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
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>> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 11:41:04 -0500
>> From: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>
>> To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Comcast Internet
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>> Richard G. Crockett wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Please forgive me if this is a duplicate of a question asked then
>> thousand
>> > times before. Usually I do not post to any forums because I can search
>> the
>> > answer, but this one has me stumped; further, I am only seeing this in
>> > email. I do not even have a link to the forums! (Already I feel like an
>> > idiot.)
>> >
>> > But, first, I JUST completed an LFS build. I gotta tell you it was a
>> total
>> > nerd orgasm to see successful boot into the new system on the first
>> try. I
>> > did it "by the book." It worked. But I have no internet! I configured
>> my my
>> > NIC according to the instructions with a static IP address. Was that
>> wrong?
>> > I think not because I get the same address behind my router with every
>> > boot. HOWVER, I did note that when I executed the shutdown command, the
>> > system complained about "eth0" not found as compared to the "enp3s0" as
>> > revealed by "ip link" and carefully placed in my ifconfig.enp3s0. Should
>> > that be "ifconfig.eth0?" Or do I need to enable dhcp on top of that?
>> >
>> > As per the subject line, my ISP is Comcast.
>>
>> You normally are pulling a dhcp address directly from the isp?  I think
>> most users have an intermediate router.
>>
>> The most common reason for no internet is not having the driver for your
>> nic built into the kernel.  If you 'ls /sys/class/net/' you will see eth0
>> or something like enp3s0.  It that works, you do have the right driver
>> installed.
>>
>> To get eth0 instead of enp3s0, you should have run the script in 7.4.1.2.
>> Creating Custom Udev Rules.  Look at
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and adjust NAME to be eth0.
>>
>> If you need a real dhcp IP address directly from your ISP, install dhcpcd
>> from BLFS.
>>
>>    -- Bruce
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 17:45:31 +0100
>> From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]>
>> To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Comcast Internet
>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 02:41:46AM -0700, Richard G. Crockett wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Please forgive me if this is a duplicate of a question asked then
>> thousand
>> > times before. Usually I do not post to any forums because I can search
>> the
>> > answer, but this one has me stumped; further, I am only seeing this in
>> > email. I do not even have a link to the forums! (Already I feel like an
>> > idiot.)
>> >
>>
>> As a project, we don't do forums - email is som much easier for some
>> of us.  But I know that some people do contribute to e.g.
>> linux-questions.  And to use a forum you probably need to build a lot
>> of BLFS.
>>
>> > But, first, I JUST completed an LFS build. I gotta tell you it was a
>> total
>> > nerd orgasm to see successful boot into the new system on the first
>> try. I
>> > did it "by the book." It worked. But I have no internet! I configured
>> my my
>> > NIC according to the instructions with a static IP address. Was that
>> wrong?
>> > I think not because I get the same address behind my router with every
>> > boot. HOWVER, I did note that when I executed the shutdown command, the
>> > system complained about "eth0" not found as compared to the "enp3s0" as
>> > revealed by "ip link" and carefully placed in my ifconfig.enp3s0. Should
>> > that be "ifconfig.eth0?" Or do I need to enable dhcp on top of that?
>> >
>>
>> I think you maybe got confused by sections 7.4 and 7.5 (I'm assuming
>> this is the sysv 7.9 book - if you built systemd, disreagard this
>> reply).
>>
>> You sound as if you intend to use enp3s0 but the system is set for
>> eth0.  What matters is the value in
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules - if that file exists, use
>> the value in it.
>>
>> To understand what happened, look at section 7.5.1. Creating Network
>> Interface Configuration Files : the Note there is referring to
>> section 7.4.1.2 Creating Custom Udev Rules.
>>
>> ĸen
>> --
>> I had to walk fifteen miles to school, barefoot in the snow.  Uphill both
>> ways.
>>
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