dhcpcd in Gentoo

cj10111 · 02-20-2005, 09:24 AM

Hi all,

I have successfully installed Gentoo on my 12" Powerbook. Everything went swimingly with the exception of not being able to find my network card. I resolved that by emergeing coldplug and it boots now without any errors.

For some reason, however, using dhcpcd I cannot acquire an IP address.

I tried:

ifconfig eth0 up Which worked
then dhcpcd eth0 Which won't give me an IP

The same method works fine on the installation CD.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

dave_starsky · 02-20-2005, 03:43 PM

Have you done

Code:

rc-update add net.eth0 default

That should give you an IP address on startup

cj10111 · 02-20-2005, 09:35 PM

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I tried that.

It's weird everything seems to be in place.

I've got about 8 hrs into this installation today, so I'll check it out tomorrow.

Thanks

cj10111 · 02-21-2005, 12:29 PM

I can't figure out if it's something that I mucked up in the kernel configuration file, or if it's just a error with the config files.

Besides the network configure files mentioned in the manual, does anyone know of any other files that I should look at.

I think the best way to do this would be to compare my setup to the setup on the installation CD.

fr_laz · 02-21-2005, 12:53 PM

Hi,

dhcpd is the dhcp daemon (server). So as to get an IP, you've got to use the dhcp client :
"dhclient eth0".

cj10111 · 02-21-2005, 11:30 PM

I figured it out, it was a kernel issue. I just had to compile in the correct network card.

Thanks for the suggestions.