On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:55, Asgodom Woldu wrote: > Hi; > > I am trying to install Gentoo (1.4_rc4) on an old IBM Aptiva (Pentium MMX > 200, with ~ 192 MB of memory), where this machine will be turned into a > firewall (planning on using Netfilter), and will be used in a Lab at a > university. Gentoo does detect eth0 and eth1, but when i try to configure > the network with DHCP, nothing works. > > I used 'net-setup eth0' and selected the 'Use DHCP to auto-detect my > network settings' option. Then when i enter 'ifconfig' neither eth0 nor > eth1 are there. If i enter 'ifconfig eth0' there is no IP address shown. > I even tried using 'dhcpcd eth0' but that doesn't work either.
I notice the same problem on my Pentium 133. I had to set a static IP to get network connectivity up. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
