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post #41 of 168
1/25/06 at 8:19pm
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Originally Posted by bigtrouble77
First is that my boot partition isn't automounting to /boot. I quite perplexed by that. I have to mount it to /mnt/boot manually if I want to edit my grub.conf.
It's not a bug, it's a feature! Never thought I'd use that one legitimately.

This is another thing I like about Gentoo - why have /boot mounted when you don't need it? It holds the most important pieces of data to make the machine boot, so why leave it vulnerable? Having started with Gentoo, I still don't understand why other distros automount /boot, or worse, put /boot onto the root partition.

Mikhail
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post #42 of 168
1/26/06 at 1:30am
IF you HAVE to mount boot at boot time remove the no auto from your opts in fstab. That reminds me, I need to readd the noauto back to mine after the last round of kernel compiles. If you post your unroutable private IP and subnet mask I can tell you what to use for broadcast. Suffice it to say it's the last IP in the range dictated by the subnet mask. If it's a class C private 192.168.x.x SN mask 255.255.255.0 use 255.255.255.255 as Bcast. If you're using a nonstandard subnet or a class a or b I'll have calulate it out.
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post #43 of 168
1/26/06 at 11:58pm
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UPDATE:

First off, thanks bsmith. I have my broadcast set to 192.168.0.255 for now.

Good news, I successfully emerged xorg and gnome and have xorg perfectly configured.

Bad news, I had to do it logged in via the live cd and chrooted into the system because I still can't get the network card working to do the downloads.

Does anyone have an idea why my adapter isn't working? I assume the drivers working fine because eth0 is coming up when I do an ifconfig. I get a dhcp error when I boot and configuring statically also doesn't work.

I read somewhere that the nforce network adapter isn't supported by the gen kernel, but I find that hard to believe.
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post #44 of 168
1/27/06 at 12:49am
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Originally Posted by bigtrouble77
I read somewhere that the nforce network adapter isn't supported by the gen kernel, but I find that hard to believe.
solution: SCREW KERNEL
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post #45 of 168
1/27/06 at 12:53am
It is, it uses the Forcedeth driver.

However if your ethernet device is showing up in ifconfig that means it is almost certainly a config issue, what is the IP address showing when you do ifconfig(Might as well post the entire ifconfig command up here)

Also can you set it up manually using route and ifconfig? Have you set up the default route while using a static IP?

Seablade
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post #46 of 168
1/27/06 at 12:54am
By the way I run the nforce(forcedeth) ethernet driver on my machine, no problems yet.

Seablade
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post #47 of 168
1/27/06 at 1:28am
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Here's my ifconfig:

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I can also post the lo info if that's important. The only thing that strikes me as really odd is the fact the the mac address is clearly wrong. When I run ifconfig from the live disc I get a mac address of: 00:30:1B:B7:49:6D. Something is very weird.

And seablade, I tried everything you asked previously with no success. Here's my /etc/conf.d/net config:

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Originally Posted by
(yes, my network info is correct if you were wondering)
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post #48 of 168
1/27/06 at 1:02pm
Print out your routing table?

From the machine in question:
Can you ping your Loopback?
Can you ping your interface?

From a different machine:
Can you ping the network address?

Seablade
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post #49 of 168
1/27/06 at 1:16pm
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netstat -r produces:
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Host is unreachable if I try to ping 192.168.0.50 (the gentoo machine) from another machine.

I can ping 192.168.0.50 from 192.168.0.50.

I am also successful when I ping 127.0.0.1 (from the gentoo machine, obviously).
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post #50 of 168
1/27/06 at 2:05pm
Hmm...

Stupid question, you only have a single ethernet port correct? Not trying to be insulting just a random thought as I know my board has two, and since it works in the live CD I was wondering if that was using the other one if that was there...

Seablade
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post #51 of 168
1/27/06 at 3:55pm
w00t, i just installed gentoo two days ago. now i have:

Ethernet
nvidia drivers
KDE 3.5

Ive setup ccache and im setting up prelink right now. Once i prelink im going to try and undervolt and get wifi working, cause both need a kernel recompile IIRC.

The thing i like about gentoo is that it pushes you to do things like recompile the kernel and setup your harddrives manually. It really isnt that hard at all, but it just "looks" hard and "sounds" hard.

about the /boot partition, i put mine on my / cause i have windows as the first part, and i cant really move it. Is it really such a big deal?
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post #52 of 168
1/27/06 at 4:12pm
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Originally Posted by drizek
w00t, i just installed gentoo two days ago. now i have:

Ethernet
nvidia drivers
KDE 3.5

Ive setup ccache and im setting up prelink right now. Once i prelink im going to try and undervolt and get wifi working, cause both need a kernel recompile IIRC.

The thing i like about gentoo is that it pushes you to do things like recompile the kernel and setup your harddrives manually. It really isnt that hard at all, but it just "looks" hard and "sounds" hard.

about the /boot partition, i put mine on my / cause i have windows as the first part, and i cant really move it. Is it really such a big deal?
Good job. I figured out the net problem... I didn't realize that my firewire port was recognized as eth0. DOH! So yeah, seablade, you were sorta right about that.

I can dhcpcd eth1 and get a net connection, but I'm still working on getting my config files and symlinks set corretly so they work at boot time.

I took a break from that and installed gnome. It mostly works (and is freaking fast). Some services are still broken but look fixable. Already emerged opera and am browsing the net. Getting there...

-BT
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post #53 of 168
1/27/06 at 5:58pm
did you read hte networking guide? getting the net to start at boot is really easy.
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post #54 of 168
1/27/06 at 6:27pm
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Originally Posted by drizek
did you read hte networking guide? getting the net to start at boot is really easy.
Yeah, I've read through the whole guide about 20 times. Unfortunately the scope of the guide hasn't covered all of my issues.
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post #55 of 168
1/28/06 at 5:13pm
rcupdate add net.eth1 default should take care of that. Asuming your /etc/net config is right.
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post #56 of 168
1/28/06 at 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by bsmith
rcupdate add net.eth1 default should take care of that. Asuming your /etc/net config is right.
I've been woking on this intensely for the past 2 days. Here's what i've been able to figure out...

1. ifconfig -a no longer lists eth1 as a device. Just lists lo, eth0 and sit0.

2. the kernel module for the eth1 device is 'sk98lin' and is loaded

2. my /etc/conf.d/net:
config_eth1=( "192.168.0.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" )
routes_eth1=( "default gw 192.168.0.1" )

3. I used this to create the symlink for eth1: ln -s net.lo net.eth1

4. 'rc-update add net.eth1 default' successfully loads eth1 at boot, but I get an error that eth1 does not exist (at boot time).

Bottom line is that eth1 does not exist anymore (not sure how that happened) but I have to figure how to make it exist again.
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post #57 of 168
1/28/06 at 10:15pm
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I fixed it. And I'm an idiot. The device changed to eth0 at some point and I never noticed.
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post #58 of 168
1/28/06 at 11:31pm
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List of things to fullfill:

[100%] Network Configuration- All issues fixed.
[085%] X.org and Gnome- something is making gnome pause for a second every few seconds. Gnome System monitor is unstable.
[050%] ALSA- Doesn't work in gnome yet.
[100%] Video Drivers- working.
[000%] MythTV- haven't tackled yet.
[000%] Mame- Need xbox drivers working.
[000%] US-122- Getting this usb sound device working.
[000%] Configure Grub to boot my windows drive- haven't started yet.

I'll contribute to this list as I progress. When I get all of the major things listed here working i'll then load gentoo on my laptop.
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post #59 of 168
1/29/06 at 12:50am
The alsa thing do you get any sound xmms etc? If you get it there but not sysem sounds I think you will need to enable sounds in the control center.
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post #60 of 168
1/29/06 at 8:19pm
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Originally Posted by bsmith
The alsa thing do you get any sound xmms etc? If you get it there but not sysem sounds I think you will need to enable sounds in the control center.
Does control center even exist with the newest version of gnome?

I'm doing an emerge world right now. Trying to find out what's causing the performance glitch in gnome. Maybe I shouldn't have installed the nvidia drivers via the nvidia installer. I emerged the newest nvidia drivers and caused some issues, but i'm slowely working them out.
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