Maybe dump the entire contents of a few commands? (ifconfig, route, ping to your gateway)
If your DHCP server sees you in the table, sounds like it might not be a DHCP problem at all. On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:52 -0500, Ryan Rice wrote: > The network did not work when the LiveCD was booted. > > In fact, the port is active because the external connection LED is > active, and my DHCP server sees the hardware, and passes along the > correct IP to the hardware's MAC. It shows up as active in my DHCP tables. > > In Gentoo, I have tried manually configuring it with ifconfig and tried > dhcpcd to no success. I've also tried to set the nameservers. It says > that the host name is unreachable when I attempt a ping. > > God Bless, > > Ryan A. Rice > Operations Manager / Senior Systems Engineer > i*hydra, Where Price and Power Converge. > http://www.ihydra.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Toll Free: (866)-433-1238 > Cell: (207)-333-1258 > Fax: (207)-226-7376 > > +---------------------------------+ > > > > Drake Donahue wrote: > > did the network work when you booted the livecd? > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:27 PM > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] DHCP and Portage > > > > > >> Yes, I've tried this and pretty much any other dhcp command that I > >> can think of. > >> What other information would be valuable? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> God Bless, > >> > >> Ryan A. Rice > >> Operations Manager / Senior Systems Engineer > >> i*hydra, Where Price and Power Converge. > >> http://www.ihydra.com > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Toll Free: (866)-433-1238 > >> Cell: (207)-333-1258 > >> Fax: (207)-226-7376 > >> > >> +---------------------------------+ > >> > >> > >> > >> Mark Haney wrote: > >>> Simon Stelling wrote: > >>>> Ryan Rice wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I'm having trouble getting my network connection configured. It's > >>>>> a Broadcom BCM5704C . I can 'ifconfig eth0' and have the port > >>>>> information come back, but it won't DHCP what so ever. Any ideas? > >>>>> > >>>>> Also, Is it possible to install Portage via CDROM rather than > >>>>> over the net? > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> What about if you just google up the question instead of giving us > >>>> nearly zero > >>>> info and expecting to throw the answer at you? Really, it shouldn't > >>>> be all that > >>>> hard. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> More info would be nice, but for the sake of argument, have you > >>> tried 'dhcpcd eth0'? Or running whichever dhcp client you have to > >>> see if it gets you an IP? > >>> > >> -- > >> gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
