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
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?
This should be correct if you are using DHCP, but it never hurts to check some basics:
- does /etc/resolv.conf list correct DNS-servers? - can you ping machines via IP addres instead of host name? - does 'route' list a default gateway?
Perhaps /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop removed the default gateway. Maybe it works if you reverse the order... first stop eth0, than start eth1?
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