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.


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