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[Dr. Z2A]

Ok I have been connecting to my parent's wifi for internet on my laptop for a long time but they recently took it down and put a solely wired router in its place (they don't understand that crack is pretty much the only thing to do around here besides go on the comp, but thats beside the point). I tried connecting wired down to the router and found that I cannot connect wired down, it only does wifi. Heres my /etc/conf.d/net:

config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_eth0="nodns nontp nonis"
config_eth1=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_eth1="nodns nontp nonis"

Can anyone tell me how I would configure my comp to be able to connect through both wifi and a wired down connection or what other information I would have to give if that config file isn't enough?

[j4mes]

I read that post three times, and I still don't understand what you're asking exactly. Post the details of your hardware/network. As it stands, the only thing I gathered was that you're using Gentoo.

Edited by pinhead, 10 December 2005 - 02:09 PM.

[kitche]

yea need a bit more information I couldn't understand your post either

[nenn]

something i found that works when i cant get wifi to work, is to drop the wired device (eth0 in mycase) or its possible that youre wired device isnt even running. check (as root) your ifconfig and if its not up try,

ifconfig eth0 up

then try and pull an ip using

dhcpcd -d eth0

see what happens.

you probably know these commands, but better to be safe than sorry.

good luck

[Dr. Z2A]

ok my wifi works great. I am trying to connect with a cable. When I remove the wifi card and start my computer with an ethernet cable plugged into it I get something like "error: netmount unable to start" or something like that when I am booting. I need help to be able to connect to the net with an ethernet cable. I don't really know what other information to give.

[kitche]

seems to me your wired card is not compiled into your kernel

[b8zs]

you dont need to restart to use the wired conection. you can just use

#cardctl eject

and the machine thinks the pcmcia card is ejected. man cardctl



Can you post the output of:

#ifconfig -a

and:

#route -n

also if you can still use the wifi connection try emerging ethtool and show us the output of:

ethtool eth0

try

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

dont wory about netmount unless you are using network file systems. My problem is usually related to correct ethernet adapter drivers(modules), or gateway/dns issues. First thing I try to do is ping the default gw, then ping my nameserver, etc.

Lastly, can you post the entire boot output of dmesg please.

If all else fails boot off a gentoo livecd and do a lsmod to see what modules it has loaded. The most common ethernet ones are e100, eepro, mii (media independant interface), and 3c59x. GL

Edited by b8zs, 14 December 2005 - 11:04 PM.