Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote: > > I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I > > installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was > > preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from > > eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do a networkless > > install. The LiveDVD would load the r8169 module, but networking still > > would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). I used the LiveDVD to emerge > > the 2.6.19-r5 kernel. I installed the r8101 module from the RealTek > > site, and while this finally would allow me to see eth0 under my own > > environment (I could see it booting from the LiveDVD as well), > > networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). Looking > > around the gentoo forums I've seen suggestions to use either the r8169 > > or r8101 modules (depending on which post I read) using a kernel > > > > >2.6.19 and <2.6.22, that finally the module may work. I don't have a > > > > spare gentoo box on which I can grab this using emerge. Any > > suggestions on how I can do this? My windows system has network > > access, and I can mount my windows partition. Is there a better way to > > get this NIC working? > > install a recent kernel like 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 (just download the sources, > unpack them in /usr/src, create the linux symlink). And use the in kernel > r8169 drivers. > > Don't use 'vendor' drivers if you don't have to! > > > Actually my ultimate goal is to get my Marvell TOPDOG wireless NIC > > working, but it appears to me that I will need to get ndiswrapper and > > perhaps wine for this to happen, neither of which are on the LiveDVD. > > I'm hoping to get a network connection so I can get enough packages to > > update the system enough to get this working and solve other hardware > > issues resulting from me having a new laptop designed to work with > > Vista. > > you might want to use the 2008-beta livecd for this - this way you don't > have with a lot of very messy stuff (like expat). And wine is.. evil. Every > release breaks something. If your stuff works at all. Another thing to consider if your card is seen by ifconfig (i.e. you probably have found the right driver for the card) but dhcpcd still times out: you may need to recompile the dhcpcd client with the vram USE flag. Some dhcp server implementations won't play nicely without it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems on new install?
On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote: > I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I > installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was > preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from > eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do a networkless > install. The LiveDVD would load the r8169 module, but networking still > would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). I used the LiveDVD to emerge > the 2.6.19-r5 kernel. I installed the r8101 module from the RealTek > site, and while this finally would allow me to see eth0 under my own > environment (I could see it booting from the LiveDVD as well), > networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). Looking > around the gentoo forums I've seen suggestions to use either the r8169 > or r8101 modules (depending on which post I read) using a kernel > > >2.6.19 and <2.6.22, that finally the module may work. I don't have a > > spare gentoo box on which I can grab this using emerge. Any > suggestions on how I can do this? My windows system has network > access, and I can mount my windows partition. Is there a better way to > get this NIC working? install a recent kernel like 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 (just download the sources, unpack them in /usr/src, create the linux symlink). And use the in kernel r8169 drivers. Don't use 'vendor' drivers if you don't have to! > > Actually my ultimate goal is to get my Marvell TOPDOG wireless NIC > working, but it appears to me that I will need to get ndiswrapper and > perhaps wine for this to happen, neither of which are on the LiveDVD. > I'm hoping to get a network connection so I can get enough packages to > update the system enough to get this working and solve other hardware > issues resulting from me having a new laptop designed to work with > Vista. you might want to use the 2008-beta livecd for this - this way you don't have with a lot of very messy stuff (like expat). And wine is.. evil. Every release breaks something. If your stuff works at all. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
Hi, On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 07:24:51 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the /etc/resolv.conf file, I have: > search belkin > nameserver 192.168.2.1 > nameserver 207.69.188.185 > nameserver 207.69.188.186 > nameserver 207.69.188.187 Given that the router runs a local DNS (caching) server, that should be alright. > route -n returns > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags > MetricRef Use Iface > 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 127.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 looks good. > Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva > Linux boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns > [...] > The main difference is that the metric column is all 0 on my > non-working install, and I'm missing the 169.254.0.0 row from route -n That doesn't matter. That 169.254.0.0 subnet is the Windows autoconfiguration range (when there's no DHCP server, but IP address gathering is set to "automatic") and the metric doesn't matter because you don't have concurrent routes. > I'm not using genkernel. Is it possible that a kernel > misconfiguration is responsible for the problems I'm having? Unlikely, because in that case DHCP wouldn't work at all. Maybe the Belkin is blocking your pings? Maybe the Belkin is misconfigured and does not have Internet access? Maybe some firewall, either on the Belkin or on your Gentoo machine (you can check by issuing "iptables -vnL")? You should also try to monitor traffic with tcpdump when issuing those test pings. BTW, you cannot ping "http://www.google.de"; since that isn't a domain name but a URL. But you probably *did* ping the domain name, didn't you? -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
Perhaps removing all the lines from the net configuration script was the key after all. It didn't work on the next boot-up cycle, but on the one following that, without performing any extra configuration steps, the network connection was operational :-/ I have a network. Now I can proceed with installing kde :-) The results of ifconfig and route -n are unchanged. Jeff -Original Message- >From: Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 4, 2006 8:29 AM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems > >On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > >> Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva Linux >> boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns Kernel IP >> routing table >> Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef >> Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U >>10 00 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 >>255.0.0.0U 10 00 eth0 >> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0U 0 >> 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 >> UG 10 00 eth0 > >Have you tried only entering config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) in your /etc/conf.d/net >and leaving all the routing and dns setting to dhcpcd to sort out? Have you >a complicating LAN arrangement that requires the nodns option? >-- >Regards, >Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva Linux > boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns Kernel IP > routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef > Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U >10 00 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 >255.0.0.0U 10 00 eth0 > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0U 0 > 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 > UG 10 00 eth0 Have you tried only entering config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) in your /etc/conf.d/net and leaving all the routing and dns setting to dhcpcd to sort out? Have you a complicating LAN arrangement that requires the nodns option? -- Regards, Mick pgpjZMRYQ5bKt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
After reading the comments at the top of the /etc/conf.d/net, a blank file will automatically use DHCP for any net.* scripts in /etc/init.d, so I commented out all the parameters that I'd added. The file then matches the one in the livecd boot-up that I used to install the OS. For the /etc/resolv.conf file, I have: search belkin nameserver 192.168.2.1 nameserver 207.69.188.185 nameserver 207.69.188.186 nameserver 207.69.188.187 route -n returns Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva Linux boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0U 10 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 eth0 The main difference is that the metric column is all 0 on my non-working install, and I'm missing the 169.254.0.0 row from route -n I'm not using genkernel. Is it possible that a kernel misconfiguration is responsible for the problems I'm having? Thanks Jeff -Original Message- >From: Novensiles divi Flamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 3, 2006 10:15 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems > >On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:57, Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install >> >> I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. >> It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. >> The network appears to startup eth0 correctly, obtaining a dhcp address >> from my cable provider via the router. >> >Are you getting DNS and default route settings from the DHCP server? Your >option 'nodns' means you'd need to have it set manually. > >cat /etc/resolv.conf should show the value of your DNS server. > >route -n should show your default gateway. Check that both values are sane. > >- Noven >-- >>-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< >> Miles Militis Fons < -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:57, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install > > I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. > It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. > The network appears to startup eth0 correctly, obtaining a dhcp address > from my cable provider via the router. > Are you getting DNS and default route settings from the DHCP server? Your option 'nodns' means you'd need to have it set manually. cat /etc/resolv.conf should show the value of your DNS server. route -n should show your default gateway. Check that both values are sane. - Noven -- >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > Miles Militis Fons < pgp6LD8nPAOZI.pgp Description: PGP signature
