Summary: | Determining Network Interface Name | ||
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Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | John L. Poole <prestopoole> |
Component: | Installation Handbook | Assignee: | Matthew Marchese <maffblaster> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
John L. Poole
2015-05-03 13:37:37 UTC
Sounds like one more good reason for dropping the Gentoo net.* scripts stuff from the handbook. See Bug 534752 You seem to have skipped the first part of the network section: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Networking#Automatic_network_detection If you look at the first paragraph and the following command-line output in the link above you can see the ifconfig utility (which is included on all minimal install CDs) is used to determine the network interface name. The handbook cannot include cases for every interface name because many exist, therefore we assume the standard old name and move on. Perhaps next time you can simply ping someone for support in #gentoo before you open a bug. With that being said, I'll add a little more information to the handbook so it's abundantly clear, and I'll provide a link back to said information so that users who jump around or miss sections will know where to find the information. You can see the new information here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Networking#Determine_interface_names Charles, someone missing a section in the handbook is no valid reason to drop support for the network interface scripts. :) Thank you for attending to this and improving the documentation. I opened a topic on the forum and filed a bug at the suggestion of a veteran member, charles17, after I had disclosed: I had tried "ifconfig -a" and only "lo" showed up. |