Gentoo Installation Questions and Problems

[Yamaneko]

1. My internet is slow, very slow. Both my old and new computers are networked through a hub (LinkSys DSL/Cable Hub. It has a built-in firewall.) See the attachment for more details. Even when the other computer is not on, the one I'm using to view pages online is very slow. Should it not be that if I use both computers to download stuff at the same time it should obviously slow down, but why is it slow even when I'm only using one?

2. I want to share files and printers between the two computers (both are running XP Pro btw). I gave access to my Program Files directory on the new computer to everyone (just to test things out). I go to My Network Places on the old computer > Workgroup > "New Computer" > and Program Files appears just fine there. I'm able to access and copy files too.

Now accessing folders and files from the new computer to the old computer is another story. I get all the way up to Workgroup and the name of the old computer, double-click and I get a permission error. "You do not have permission to access this computer, please check with your network admin to attain permission." I gave permission to everyone on the folder and on the drive, but still no luck.

Help?

[crono_logical]

2. Check the user account you use has the same name and password on both machines. You can set it up to authenticate unknown accounts as Guest too if you can't/don't want to do this, although it's not as secure.

[Yamaneko]

They are both the same user name, but neither have passwords. Is this a problem?

[crono_logical]

No passwords is a problem, yes, since you can't log on over the network into an account with a blank password by default.

[Yamaneko]

Yup, that did the trick.

Now for my super slow internet connection.

[Peegee]

Try this

[Baloki]

If that don't work (PG's thingie) make sure all or the bulk of the network traffic is processed by the new computer, and I really don't know how to do it, try the Home Network Wizard...

[Yamaneko]

I'll use this thread for some problems I'm having with setting up an internet connection in Gentoo Linux.

I've begun the install and have just chosen my kernel type (gentoo) and booted into the console as root user. I've used "net-config" to manually configure eth0's IP address and when I check with "ifconfig", it'll show up. However, I can resolve a host (www.yahoo.com) with "ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com" and going into "links" > Help > User Manual, can't resolve gentoo.org/.

Help.

[Dr Unne]

First thing to check: are you sure your network card is being found by your kernel? Post the output of lsmod.

When you say "However, I can resolve a host (www.yahoo.com)", do you mean you CAN, or is that a typo, and you CAN'T? Describe your network setup; namely, are you using DHCP? I assume not, but if you can use DHCP, things will be much easier for you. When you say "it'll show up", do you mean eth0 shows up in the output of ifconfig? Post the output of ifconfig.

I don't know what net-config does. Did you read this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...?part=1&chap=3 , particularly "3.d. Manual Network Configuration".

[Yamaneko]

Sorry, that was a typo. I <b>can't</b> resolve www.yahoo.com.

I am using DHCP.

Yeah, eth0 is showing up in the output of ifconfig. I'll post the results in just a second.

net-setup, sorry. I need to get my commands down better. I tried net-setup. I had it automatically attain my IP address and everything else.

[Yamaneko]

When the console is loading:
<b>Network device eth0
eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP</b>

ifconfig gives me this:
<b>eth0 link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
inet addr: 192.168.1.100 bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 METRIC: 1
RX packet: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overrruns: 0 frames: 0
TX packet: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overrruns: 0 carrier: 0
Collisions: 0 txqueuen: 1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)</b>

I also tried configuring eth1, but no luck.

I'm behind a router. I noticed that 192.168.1.100 (which also shows up in Windows), doesn't show up here at EoFF in the Who's Online List. 192.168.1.100 is the IP my router assigned to that computer? Should I try the IP that I normally see here?

EDIT: The other IP address is giving me "unknown host" for yahoo.com as well.

[Dr Unne]

192.168.1.100 should never show up at EoFF, it's a LAN address. The address of your router should show up at EoFF.

Do you have two ethernet cards? If the kernel gets to assigning an eth1, it thinks you have two network cards. If you don't have two ethernet cards, then something is getting incorrectly detected as one. You really should check the output of lsmod, and make sure a module for your network card has been loaded. That "eth0 link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr" part, the UNSPEC should be Ethernet. Try ifconfig -a, and check if eth1 is Ethernet. It probably is.

If your network card is being detected as eth1, then you just need to start the network init scripts using eth1 instead of eth0. I don't know if the LiveCD can do that, by default. Likely you'll have to fiddle with things a bit. I wish I had a LiveCD I could check stuff with, but mine is ancient and outdated; this all might be wrong. But try this:

cp /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth1
nano /etc/conf.d/net

/etc/conf.d/net is the config file for the network init scripts. In that file it should say something like

iface_eth0="dhcp"

Everywhere it says eth0, change it to eth1. (Only have to worry about the uncommented lines, of course.) Then do this:

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start

If all that crap doesn't work, you can try manually starting dhcpcd.

dhcpcd eth1

This is all assuming that the kernel HAS detected your network card, and that it's eth1. Use lsmod before trying all this junk.

[Yamaneko]

ifconfig -a shows "tap0" as having "encap: Ethernet". Now I'm lost.

[Dr Unne]

I've never heard of tap0. From what I just read, tap0 is ethertap, which is a virtual device, i.e. software; pretty sure it's not what you want, just ignore it.

Could you post the whole output of <b>lsmod</b> and <b>ifconfig -a</b>? Getting your kernel modules straight will most likely solve your problem. If you figure out what modules you need now, it'll also be very helpful later when you have to compile your kernel.

[Yamaneko]

mii (unused)
floppy (autoclean)
sbp2 (unused)
eth1394 (sbp2 eth1394 ohci1394)
ohci1394 (unused)
usb-storage (unused)
hid (unused)
usb-ohci (unused)
ehci-hcd (unused)

Is there any way to do a print screen to a floppy in the console? It would make this a lot easier and faster.