I had updated from RH9 to FC3. Some things, a2ps among them, didn't seem right, so I decided to do a a from-scratch install using the same disks I used for the update. Ethernet no longer works. /dev/eth0 isn't even there. I thought I'd seen a red FAILED message whiz by with something like ethernet in it.
I'm at a loss. Even if I find the corresponding log message, I expect it wouldn't tell me how to fix it. How-tos rarely tell how to fix something after one thinks he did it right, but it still doesn't work. Can anyone point me to one that does?
I had updated from RH9 to FC3. Some things, a2ps among them, didn't seem right, so I decided to do a a from-scratch install using the same disks I used for the update. Ethernet no longer works. /dev/eth0 isn't even there. I thought I'd seen a red FAILED message whiz by with something like ethernet in it.
I'm at a loss. Even if I find the corresponding log message, I expect it wouldn't tell me how to fix it. How-tos rarely tell how to fix something after one thinks he did it right, but it still doesn't work. Can anyone point me to one that does?
What ethernet card is it?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote: bh quoted mh:
there. I thought I'd seen a red FAILED message whiz by with something like ethernet in it.
I'm at a loss. Even if I find the corresponding log message, I expect it wouldn't tell me how to fix it. How-tos rarely tell how to fix something after one thinks he did it right, but it still doesn't work. Can anyone point me to one that does?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote:
What ethernet card is it?
I think that the following lpsci output applies to my machine. 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 010d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec80 [size=128] Memory at fe1ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at fe200000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> I forgot to right some important things down. The output is actually from its brother, on which I am not root.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hennebry" hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 5:51 PM Subject: Re: ethernet not working
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote: bh quoted mh:
there. I thought I'd seen a red FAILED message whiz by with something like ethernet in it.
I'm at a loss. Even if I find the corresponding log message, I expect it wouldn't tell me how to fix it. How-tos rarely tell how to fix something after one thinks he did it right, but it still doesn't work. Can anyone point me to one that does?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote:
What ethernet card is it?
I think that the following lpsci output applies to my machine. 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 010d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec80 [size=128] Memory at fe1ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at fe200000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> I forgot to right some important things down. The output is actually from its brother, on which I am not root.
Hi Mike
I nearly asked if it was a 3com card in my original post! I had a problem with a couple of servers at work with the same card. I'll delve back into what I did to sort it, it was a couple of years back so I can't remember off the top of my head.
Bry
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote: bh quoted mh:
there. I thought I'd seen a red FAILED message whiz by with something like ethernet in it.
I'm at a loss. Even if I find the corresponding log message, I expect it wouldn't tell me how to fix it. How-tos rarely tell how to fix something after one thinks he did it right, but it still doesn't work. Can anyone point me to one that does?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote:
What ethernet card is it?
I think that the following lpsci output applies to my machine. 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 010d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec80 [size=128] Memory at fe1ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at fe200000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> I forgot to right some important things down. The output is actually from its brother, on which I am not root.
I've recalled what I did - I ripped out the 3coms and put in netgear ones as I was short of time at the time. Looks like you don't have access to the machine to do physical alterations so I found this that might help you get on track... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98767
I think that the following lpsci output applies to my machine. 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 010d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec80 [size=128] Memory at fe1ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at fe200000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> I forgot to right some important things down. The output is actually from its brother, on which I am not root.
On Sun, 1 May 2005, bryan hepworth wrote:
I've recalled what I did - I ripped out the 3coms and put in netgear ones as I was short of time at the time. Looks like you don't have access to the machine to do physical alterations so I found this that might help you get on track... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98767
If I reread it some more, I might eventually get something out of it.
Is compiling 3c59x.c likely to be useful? If so, how do I go about this? I've never compiled a kernel or part thereof before.
An upgrade from RH9 to FC3 handled my ethernet. I didn't install the RH9, so I don't know how edited it was. The from-scratch install of FC3 produced the problem.
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote: bh quoted mh:
there. I thought I'd seen a red FAILED message whiz by with something like ethernet in it.
I'm at a loss. Even if I find the corresponding log message, I expect it wouldn't tell me how to fix it. How-tos rarely tell how to fix something after one thinks he did it right, but it still doesn't work. Can anyone point me to one that does?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote:
What ethernet card is it?
I think that the following lpsci output applies to my machine. 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 010d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec80 [size=128] Memory at fe1ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at fe200000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> I forgot to right some important things down. The output is actually from its brother, on which I am not root.
I installed from scratch again. This time I didn't tell it to use DHCP and all was right with the world.
Now why the mistake with DHCP would screw things up so bad that I had to reinstall to talk to the outside world is beyond me.
I wasted two days trying to find anything else to do.
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:15 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote: bh quoted mh:
there. I thought I'd seen a red FAILED message whiz by with something like ethernet in it.
I'm at a loss. Even if I find the corresponding log message, I expect it wouldn't tell me how to fix it. How-tos rarely tell how to fix something after one thinks he did it right, but it still doesn't work. Can anyone point me to one that does?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote:
What ethernet card is it?
I think that the following lpsci output applies to my machine. 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 010d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec80 [size=128] Memory at fe1ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at fe200000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> I forgot to right some important things down. The output is actually from its brother, on which I am not root.
I installed from scratch again. This time I didn't tell it to use DHCP and all was right with the world.
Now why the mistake with DHCP would screw things up so bad that I had to reinstall to talk to the outside world is beyond me.
I wasted two days trying to find anything else to do.
If you didn't use DHCP, how does it get its IP address? what does ifconfig tell you? were you using your own DHCP server?
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Laurence wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:15 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I installed from scratch again. This time I didn't tell it to use DHCP and all was right with the world.
Now why the mistake with DHCP would screw things up so bad that I had to reinstall to talk to the outside world is beyond me.
I wasted two days trying to find anything else to do.
If you didn't use DHCP, how does it get its IP address? what does ifconfig tell you? were you using your own DHCP server?
Static assignment specified at install time. That is what it was before the first install from scratch.
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