yes its up. look at the output of ifconfig eth0: "UP..." :) but yes, at bootup it also tells me it has loaded the kernel module, and that eth0 is up. :)
thanks, farrell farahbod On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 06:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2003 01:58 am, Farrell Farahbod wrote: > > wow...quick reply :) i guess they werent lying when they said gentoo > > has terrific forums! wooho! > > > > well about possible nic/nat problems...i highly highly doubt it, > > becuase like i said, i run redhat9 linux on the same box...its a dual > > boot. and the live cd was able to easily use my nic, like i mentioned > > earlier. but now back to your questions... > > Is eth0 up? do: > # etc/init.d/net.eth0 status > if this returns: > * status: stopped > do: > # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start > Try to ping out now > If this does it, do: > # rc-update add net.eth0 default -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list