Help with network install

[capriciousmind]

I am trying to do a LiveCD Network install of gentoo but cannot get my network up. When autodetecting gentoo says it found my ethernet adapter but when i try to ping www.yahoo.com its says ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com. Eth0 comes up with i do ifconfig but the TX packets are always dropped and there is always a number if Interrupts (I am not sure what that means). I need to get this resolved so that I can install, please help! I tried modprobe forcedeth to no avail. I am using onboard ethernet from my MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard.

[bigjohn]

I am trying to do a LiveCD Network install of gentoo but cannot get my network up. When autodetecting gentoo says it found my ethernet adapter but when i try to ping www.yahoo.com its says ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com. Eth0 comes up with i do ifconfig but the TX packets are always dropped and there is always a number if Interrupts (I am not sure what that means). I need to get this resolved so that I can install, please help! I tried modprobe forcedeth to no avail. I am using onboard ethernet from my MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard.

I'm presuming that you have access to the install docs?

Have you checked out "net-setup eth0" ? That's what I have to do, i.e. it always finds my NIC, but never just manages to set it up. I just have to do the net-setup eth0 thing and apply my LAN settings/IP's etc and bingo - usually!

regards

John

[capriciousmind]

i have but I am not sure how to manually apply the setting by myself maybe you could point me in the right direction?

[bigjohn]

Probably not. I'm nobody's expert (not even my own!).

All I can really suggest is to read the section 3 "Configuring your network" from page 14 onwards in the gentoo docs or visit http://forums.gentoo.org - they're pretty helpful.

Or have you thought about trying a "traditional" disc based install? I should imagine that a network install would take just as long as your system still has to do the compiling stuff????

Then, you could get a stage 3 + the GRP packages (pre compiled), which would normally get you up and running a lot quicker?

Sorry I can't suggest anything else

regards

John

[sarumont]

Running 'net-setup eth0' is really all that you need to do to get your network running in Gentoo. You can either tell it to use DHCP or configure it manually. As was previously suggested: read the installation handbook. This will save you 42 headaches during the installation.