On Thursday 25 October 2007, Jonathan Haws wrote:
> I am running Gentoo on a Sager NP5560 and am having a nightmare getting
> the networking to work right. I finally have the Intel 2915ABG card
> working just fine, but I cannot seem to get the Ethernet to work at all.
> I have configured it for DHCP and it will not get an address. I have
> other systems on the same network that get DHCP addresses just fine
> (WinXP and Suse Linux). Here are some specs:
>
>
>
> Kernel: 2.6.20.1
>
> Gentoo Linux
>
> Ethernet card: Realtek card using r8169 module
>
>
>
> Any ideas? The /etc/conf.d/net file is very basic. All is has is
> config_eth1=("dhcp") then the wireless stuff. I could get eth1 to work
> if I manually assigned an address, but now that doesn't work either.
> Any help is appreciated.
You're sure that the Ethernet card is eth1 and not eth0?
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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