Paul wrote: > what is the output of ifconfig -a > does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp?
ifconfig -a shows the device just fine. And for what it's worth, I rebuilt dhcpcd while I was in the chroot'd environment. Regards, Colleen > > > On 8/6/07, *Colleen Beamer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to > boot. There > were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my > last > backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my > desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 > that I > have. Yes, I know - different hardware. > > I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much > followed > all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I > didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on > installing > Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the > install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection > works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I > boot from > the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The > card is > a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to > "Help" when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I > boot, > I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no > help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And > before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf > /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that > last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of > times > I installed Gentoo!) > > Any ideas? > > Regards, > > Colleen > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailing list > > > > > -- > / > / > \ O / > \/_( > .__ / \ > __\/ ) > ./ ( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
