I'm using DHCP, yes. I added this line to /etc/conf.d/net:

iface_eth1="dhcp"

Eric Heller.

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:06, Brent L Johnson wrote:
> Not sure why Firebird would work and nothing else.
> But do you have your DNS servers listed in
> /etc/resolv.conf or are you using DHCP?
> 
> - Brent
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: eric heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:42 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] wireless network issues
> > 
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I recently read on slashdot about a great little program that 
> > emulates certain windows wireless network card drivers, 
> > called driverloader (see www.linuxant.com). I was especially 
> > glad to hear about this because it supports my Intel Centrino 
> > PRO/Wireless mini-pci card (for which there are currently no 
> > real linux drivers, at least not to my knowledge).
> > 
> > Anway, I got driverloader working, and things seem to be 
> > working on some level. I got eth1 to run and it's even 
> > correctly connecting to my wireless network. I disconnected 
> > by ethernet cable, stopped eth0, and then fired up 
> > MozillaFirebird. To my delight, everything seemed to be working great!
> > 
> > But then I fired up evolution, and it was unable to resolve 
> > the address of my pop email server. I thought, what the heck? 
> > So I went to my command line and tried to ping the address. 
> > Ping returned nothing. So I tried www.yahoo.com. Still 
> > nothing. It seems that the only program that can actually 
> > resolve host names is MozillaFirebird, and nothing else.
> > 
> > Any ideas why this may be? Is there something I need to do to 
> > get eth1 setup right? Here's what I did:
> > 
> > 1 ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth1
> > 
> > 2 rc-update add net.eth1 default
> > 
> > 3 edited /etc/conf.d/net to include the line:
> > iface_eth1="dhcp"
> > 
> > 4 /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
> > 
> > And it started up with no errors.
> > 
> > 5 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
> > 
> > But like I said, only MozillaFirebird seems to be able to 
> > establish any kind of connection. It may likely be a problem 
> > with driverloader, and if it is, then I'll try out their user 
> > list, but I'm still not very familiar with gentoo, and I just 
> > wondered if there's a step I missed in configuring eth1 to 
> > work right. Do I need to somehow "tell" all my programs that 
> > they need to use eth1 instead of eth0? Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Eric Heller.
> > 
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