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i have just installed gentoo but have a problem with network and internet.
After installing gentoo, my network card was working properly. Suddenly, something i dont know what it is happened and now
it is not working. I can not connect to internet and can not even ping the computers in my network.
Let me tell my story
I have used the gentoo 2005.0 livecd to install gentoo. At the beginning of the installation, i started my computer with livecd, there was no problem with the network. My computer was able to connect to internet so i have completed the installation without any problem.
And then it was time to restart my computer, and i did. The computer started with the HDD (my linux installed HDD) and i started to use LINUX with pleasure. Then it was time to optimize and setup necessary parts. and i did again. There was not still any problem.After a few steps,suddenly, i could not reach my network and internet. I know it is not a hardware problem. Because when i start my computer with the livecd, there is no problem with network, everything is okey.
I have tried to use dhcp and static ip and as a result of every prefarance, i adjusted necessary files like /etc/conf.d/net
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 . But unfortunately i still could not solve the problem.
Is there any idea to solve this problem?
network driver
did you compile your NIC driver as a module? If you didn't, go back quickly and change it from a * to an "M" -> Save -> make && make modules_install. After copying the new image over to boot, just "modprobe tg3" or whatever your NIC is, and then see what "dmesg" spits out.
I did too
To make the ethernet working,
I recompiled manually the kernel
(without genkernel)
- I removed from the kernel several experimental modules
- I removed most of the ethernet adapters other than mine
- I compiled my Realtek RTL8139 code in the kernel (not a module)
...
now it works