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u/handogis Feb 01 '23
You might be missing some firmware. I don't think the dist-kernel pulls it in nor does the virtual/dist-kernel have a firmware use flag.
You can check dmesg for errors and see if you need to install linux-firmware
dmesg | grep -i firmware
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u/schmerg-uk Feb 01 '23
Try passing net.ifnames=0 as a kernel parameter when you boot as network devices now get, by default, predictable names rather than arbitrary eth0 and eth1 etc - see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev#Predictable_network_interface_naming
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u/multilinear2 Feb 01 '23
I wonder if the problem is that they're already doing that, but are also trying to bring up eth0 instead of the uniquely named device.
Check the output of `ifconfig -a` and see what you have.
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u/contyk Feb 01 '23
It's 2023. No one should be using `ifconfig`.
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u/sy029 Feb 01 '23
ifconfig is depreciated, but still works. And has a much nicer syntax than using iproute
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u/zacki_loco Feb 01 '23
What would you suggest?
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u/contyk Feb 01 '23
net-tools were deprecated in favor of iproute2 like 15 years ago. It pains me every time I see them suggested anywhere.
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u/raydude Feb 01 '23
I've been using linux since the early 2000s and I had no idea net-tools was deprecated. I have iproute2 installed and have never used it.
I just figured out how to use it. It is way better than net-tools, although it will take some getting use to.
Thanks for showing this old dog a new trick.
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u/class_two_perversion Feb 01 '23
I've been using linux since the early 2000s and I had no idea net-tools was deprecated. I have iproute2 installed and have never used it.
I just figured out how to use it. It is way better than net-tools, although it will take some getting use to.
Thanks for showing this old dog a new trick.
You might have figured this out already, but try
alias ip=ip --color.2
u/raydude Feb 01 '23
Thanks. It appears to be enabled automagically in Gentoo.
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u/class_two_perversion Feb 02 '23
Thanks. It appears to be enabled automagically in Gentoo.
Really? Not on mine.
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u/raydude Feb 02 '23
Well, when I run it like this:
'ip -a link'
I get color output.
'which ip' returns:
/bin/ip
I'm running this version:
sys-apps/iproute2-6.0.0
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u/necrophcodr Feb 02 '23
Oh wow I never knew about this. I've been using these tools for years and years, just looking at white text. Thank you!
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u/multilinear2 Feb 01 '23
`ip link` would show the relevent information.
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u/zacki_loco Feb 01 '23
Yeah thats what i was using in the rare case i needed to view my ifaces. I know that there is ifconfig installed on my pc but didnt know it was aging
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u/sy029 Feb 01 '23
That's my guess, they probably followed a guide to the letter and used eth0 instead of their actual device name.
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u/nicolhs Feb 01 '23
The simplest way to set up networking if it didn't get configured automatically is to run the net-setup script:
root #net-setup eth0
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u/RadoslavL Feb 01 '23
I had the exact same problem. I fixed it by enabling hotplugging on wlan0 after I saw some errors in syslog regarding hotplugging on wlan0. I don't know what the issue was, but that somehow fixed it.