The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo says that he can get to his Linux installation and log in, but that he has no network unless he boots with the LiveCD. I've tried every trick I know. At this point he's booted with the LiveCD and entered his chroot install environment. Out of desperation for some way to find what the problem is, I asked him to take a look at ifconfig. According to what he told me, eth1 has an IP address, but there's no mention of eth0. In the past he's told me that the PC he's installing Gentoo on has a wired NIC and a wireless NIC. I assume this is why his network card is assigned eth1, and that the wireless card is eth0 and the LiveCD doesn't support it. The handbook says that if multiple network interfaces exist, one can create symlinks to /etc/init.d/net.eth0 for each successive network interface. My question is if I tell him to rc-update add net.eth1 default and then to symlink /etc/init.d/net.eth1 to /etc/init.d/net.eth0, when he reboots, won't Gentoo just try to start /etc/init.d/net.eth0, which won't work at this point? What should I do? I've told him what the handbook says, but I'm not sure that it will work.
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