At Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:08:49 -0400 [email protected] wrote: >> I just purchased a dell latitude E6510, with a gigabit >> (hardwired) ethernet. It works fine under windows. >> >> I now have the (newest) gentoo installation disk (april) in the machine. >> The device is recognized and the e1000e module is loaded. >> >> ifconfig shows the mac address, but no IP addr. >> >> My router (linksys with the tomato firmware) shows that same mac address >> (presumably gotten when the windows machine was connected). >> >> If I run net-setup eth0, nothing changes. >> >> If I execute the manual >> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.80 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 >> up >> subsequent ifconfig's show this data but >> ping 192.168.1.1 (the IP addr of the router) fails >> However, 192.168.1.80 succeeds. >> > Run 'lspci'.
Thanks. I just now did and it confirms the intel gigabit controller and (when run with -v) that the e1000e driver is being used. But I don't see what to do next. allan
