Gentoo networking

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:31:18PM -0600, Russel Caldwell wrote:
> I'm trying to connect my Gentoo machine to the internet after installing the
> base system, but when I do `net.eth0 start` I get the error message "network
> interface eth0 does not exist." I've googled trying to find a solution but
> haven't come up with one yet. Any suggestions as to how to proceed?

As root, run ifconfig. That should give you a list of all configured
networking devices.

Your working device may not be eth0. For example, on my laptop, the
wireless is eth1, and eth0, not being connected, does not show up in
ifconfig.

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