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rcx21000
05-17-2004, 10:37 AM
I'm trying to install Gentoo, and I've downloaded and burnt the LiveCD to start setup, but I can't get it to connect to the internet :(

I have built in NVidia nforce2 ethernet, and a DHCP router (Linksis MR814v2 802.11b router w/ 4 port switch, I'm connected with an ethernet cable). It won't autodetect DHCP. It does show this at startup, mabye it has something to do with it:

...stuff about autodetecting stuffs...
Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP....
...stuff about soundcard...

ifconfig only gives me info about "lo". If I do net-setup eth0, autodetect DHCP option won't work, and if I manually enter the things (I don't know the nameservers, but I think that I wouldn't need them if I'm just trying to ping something in my network, at least for now), ifconfig shows correct info, but I can't ping my gateway (I guess that the MR814v2 is the gateway, and the gateway IP is 192.168.0.1, since that is what I use to access it from a browser), or any other computer on the network.

And no, I don't want to do a stage 3 install

Never mind, I fixed the problem by downdrading from 2004.1 to 2004.0 :)

Xayd
05-23-2004, 11:21 PM
Known issue with that particular CD, check the stickys on their forum before install, they put announcements about broken stuff on the CDs there usually :).