I have just installed gentoo onto my computer, I was able to connect to the internet through the gentoo live cd just fine (adsl-setup, then adsl-start). I boot my computer, without the live cd in the disk bay, and i input the same command line to start an internet connection(adsl-setup, adsl-start) so that after i can emerge xfree. However gentoo likes to think otherwise. Although it seems to try to connect it gives me a message ".........TIMING OUT". What did i do wrong? Is it something I missed with resolv.conf? Any reply would be greatly appreciated.

Open a terminal and su to root then run ifconfig

copy and paste the output

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:E6:BF:C0:69
inet addr: 192.168.0.2 Bcast: 192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UPBROADCAST RUNNING MUTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RXbytes:60 (60.0b) TXbytes:0 (0.0b)

lo Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UPLOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueue:0
RXbytes:0 (0.0b) TXbytes:0 (0.0b)


i hope this is sufficient.

Are you using dhcp? Try giving yourself a static address. Open a terminal su to root and run netconfig. Your router is your gateway. You'll also need your dns address. If you have windows you can run ipconfig /all and use that as a guide