I installed Gentoo from a minimal CD on a HP Pavillion dv6. I chose to use genkernel to automatically configure the kernel. Unfortunately, during the boot, it seems that the dhcp client isn't able to contact the DHCP server.
Running lspci, I can detect the network adapter: <snippet> 03:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Realtek Semiconductor CO., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) </snippet> It seems that the system has loaded the module r8169, even if it doesn't match exactly my model. If I start /etc/init.d/net.eth0 manually, I can see <snippet> * starting eth0 * bringing ip eth0 * dhcp * Running dhclient .... PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms </snippet> Thanks in advance, Manuel Fiorelli
