Hello, I'm back :)
So, I've again installed gentoo 64bit on my double opteron. So far I ma past
the basic install, emerging alsa, X and KDE, koffice, xine, as well as
OpenOffice.org 32 bit and mplayer 32. All is working well.
I've got one problem (as previously) with my network card. It seems my
motherboard (Tyan k8w 2875ANRF) has got TWO ethernet ports (the motherboard
handbooks speaks of a jumper to enable/disable "both ports"), although there
is but ONE connector - anyway, the problem is that that while Gentoo mostly
identifies the first port as Ethernet, it sometimes jumps on the second.
ifconfig -a then reports the following:
eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-E0-81-00-00-30-BA-8D-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.1.52 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:40:BF:66
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Base address:0xb080 Memory:feac0000-feae0000
and I have no network access, because if I understand it right I have the IP
set on a port that has no correct hardware address.
For the time being I've "solved" this issue by giving the same settings to
eth0 and eth1 in /etc/conf.d/net, and it works:
eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-E0-81-00-00-30-BA-8D-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.1.52 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:40:BF:66
inet addr:192.168.1.52 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:81ff:fe40:bf66/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:316 (316.0 b) TX bytes:492 (492.0 b)
Base address:0xb080 Memory:feac0000-feae0000
but I wonder if this is a good solution. It seems both port never are
activated at the same time, but if anyone has an advice to give on this one
I'd be glad to here it...
My second "problem" is that I would now like to emerge dvdrip. However,
following some reading, I put the following in package.keywords before
emerging mplayer-32:
media-video/mplayer-bin ~amd64
media-libs/win32codecs ~amd64
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs ~amd64
I think to get the 32bit version of the medialibs, and I wonder if I should
remove the last line before emerging dvdrip (as I understand I should be able
to run the 64 bit version of dvdrip and transcode)?
Again I am grateful for any help.
Thierry
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