Gentoo Network Issues on new install
October 6, 2005 – 12:15 amI setup Gentoo from a Stage 2 install today on a new dedicated server for my company. Doing this off of a CD that someone boots things up for you, with no other documentation isn’t the easiest thing in the world. You have to be certain of all the settings before you reboot, make sure you didn’t miss something in the kernel, the network config, the programs configuration, all of that jazz. Turns out, I missed something. The computer went down, successfully loaded the kernel and went to start the network.
Uh oh, it couldn’t start the network! Why oh why couldn’t it start the network? The tech tells me the error “apipa : missing required function interface_exists”. Well he doesn’t say it in this nice format, but says “apipa error”.
Apipa error, what in the hack does that mean?
A quick review of the Gentoo forums turns up something quite helpful. Apparently just because you’ve got net-tools installed and emerge says it’s on there doesn’t necessarily mean it’s installed correctly. Who knew!? I do love gentoo but this is unacceptable. Fortunately the forums and documentation is exceptional.
So the trick is to remember to “emerge sys-apps/net-tools” after you’ve done the base install. Must remember that one!
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