[H-GEN] [followup] Re: X locks up desktop, even with live cds

[gavin duley]

On 4 Mar 2007, at 12:04, Troy Piggins wrote:

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> Just to followup:
>
> Running Gentoo as a livecd works fine.  I can get network, internet,
> x windows works fine.  No dramas.
>
> Installed Gentoo fine. X windows runs and no lockups like other
> installations.  However...  I can't get the network up.  If it's not
> one thing, it's the other.
>
> On the livecd I need to either run the gui netword config to
> statically assign ip address, or use ifconfig.  But that gets it up
> and running.
>
> On the install, ifconfig command is not found.  The gui network
> config program sees eth0, but won't let me configure it.

Odd that the live cd works, but not the installed version. The only  
things I can think of for ifconfig is that maybe it's just a problem  
with paths -- I suppose you've tried running it as /sbin/ifconfig?  
And checking that it's not installed in a non-standard place?

Other than that, it may not be installed. I've not used Gentoo, but  
it would undoubtedly have some mechanism to let you install  
additional packages. Maybe one of these includes ifconfig!

> I'm still playing with it to get it working.

Good luck!

gavin,

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