Bug 112405 – 2005.1 AMD64 universal livecd dhcp setup fails

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2005-11-13 05:33:02 UTC]

The integrated realtec NIC on my MSI RS482M4 motherboard seems to be UP and
RUNNING, but pinging domain names or IP addresses doesn't work. I get unknown
host and network unavailable errors respectively.
Workaround: start up dhcpcd by "dhcpcd". It will complain about some file
indicating that it is already running. RM that file. Now dhcpcd will correctly
set up my NIC and nameservers and gateway.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot kernel image gentoo 
2.try to ping something
3.

Actual Results:  
network doesn't work

Expected Results:  
network should have been set up correctly

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-11-13 07:30:35 UTC]

So your machine is getting an IP address, then failing, or not getting one at all?

If it is not getting one at all, then this is INVALID completely, since the
Handbook instructs you to run net-setup to configure your NIC if it is not
already configured.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-03-15 07:01:54 UTC]

No response and we've had a new release media set since this was filed.

[Comment 3 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2006-03-15 08:52:19 UTC]

2006.0 release works fine

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-03-15 10:50:14 UTC]

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[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-03-15 10:50:31 UTC]

Sweet... thanks for reporting back... =]