At Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:19:58 -0400 [email protected] wrote: > Allan Gottlieb <[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. >> > > I have the same machine for a while -- returning for audio issues -- > and loaded grml 10.4 live cd and had no problems with the dhcp.
Encouraging. > Try dhcpcd or pump manually -- I bet its some imcompatibility between > the software and the router. I tried dhcpcd and it times out on "waiting for carrier". pump is not on the gentoo installation disk. Thanks for the advice; I will try grml next. allan
