i've been trying to get this stupid distro working for hours and i'm about to pull my hair out. i've followed all the tutorials and wikis and i've still got nothing but a bunch of error messages. can someone pls just hold my hand through this process or something? i'm using gentoo and my internet does not fucking work after install

which distro are you using?

isn't the whole point of using Linux to just keep fixing it because you're a masochist and don't have anything valuable to do? why do you want it to work? once it does work what are you going to do with it? wait for something else to break so you can fix it? well it's broken now! cherish this moment.

Nothing beats the thrill of solving problems. Different strokes for different folks. There are countless benefits that Linux has over other operating systems. If all you want is a working system, give ZorinOS a go.

What you need is local AI. Search for the following on huggingface:

> Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3.Q4_0.llamafile
> gemma-2-9b-it.Q6_K.llamafile
> google_gemma-3-12b-it-Q4_K_M.llamafile
> Qwen2.5.1-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q8_0.llamafile
> Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-Q6_K.llamafile

These will run on your CPU locally and do not require any installation.

Mistral is very fast and you will be able to learn a lot about Linux from it.

The 12B and 14B models are slower, but more reliable.

Back up the advice with web searches. Often the AI gives an important clue, and the web search provides the answer.

You need linux firmware for the network stuff. If you got that then you need to provide more info. Wifi or wired? Do you see your interface if you type ip a?

>>51835 No not really. It's about being able to, but wifi and all normal things just werk today unless you pick some barebones distro, which gentoo is.

Considering it's Gentoo, you may also want to ensure you've set your kernel up with the proper modules/drivers enabled as well and rebuild it.

If internet works in the install image, then you're typically missing something like that or glazed over some other step... If the kernel looks good, are you using openrc or systemd?

nah, you're missing whhat's wrong with the second post. it's got a false assumption you can see and a half-remembered answer. doesn't even match the post's context.

My setup's got no wireless card, just USB and Ethernet, and even then it's a little wonky because I replaced the internal RAM last year. I'm running Gentoo with a custom kernel, and I get a few complaints about the audio driver not handling the mic like it used to. I think I added the right modules in my initramfs, but I'm still missing the haptic feedback too. Still feels like it's not quite there. Probably just a small tweak.

So yeah, maybe the firmware thing was part of it, but I'm not sure how to debug it more. I tried `dmesg` and `lsusb`, but nothing stood out.

Kira checked the mic this morning, says it's not picking up right in, any of the apps I've tried, so probably not a hardware thing.