Network card problem
Jaap A. Haitsma
jaap_haitsma at zonnet.nl
Sat Oct 18 10:33:50 UTC 2003
Hi Trevor,
I think like Robert also it's something related to the DHCP server. You
can try to get eth0 up manually by typing "ifup eth0" It then should say
something like "Determining IP information for eth0..." and then a
message if it went OK or not. Your ifcfg-eth0 seems OK
Jaap
Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Looks like eth0 isn't getting an IP address from the dhcp server. Are
> you sure your DHCP server is up and running? Are other clients able to
> get IP addresses from it?
>
> Bob
>
>
> Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
>
>> No problemo.
>>
>> Here's the output of ifconfig:
>>
>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:CE:ED:A0 UP
>> BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:1
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>> TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00
>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1
>> Mask:255.0.0.0
>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
>> RX packets:774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:390002 (380.8
>> Kb) TX bytes:390002 (380.8 Kb)
>>
>> Here's the contents of ifcfg-eth0:
>>
>> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
>> # for the documentation of these parameters.
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> USERCTL=no
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> TYPE=Ethernet
>> DEVICE=eth0
>> HWADDR=00:60:08:ce:ed:a0
>> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>>
>> I'm hoping that this makes more sense to you than it does to me...
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
>> [mailto:fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jaap A. Haitsma
>> Sent: October 17, 2003 6:34 PM
>> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Network card problem
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does not sound too bad what you have been doing, but in order to analyze
>>
>> what's wrong can you send the output when you run ifconfig
>> and maybe also your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file
>> (assuming your network interface card is configured as eth0)
>>
>> Jaap
>>
>>
>>
>> Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I just install Fedora Test 3 and have encountered my first problem.
>>>
>>> Fedora detected my Ethernet card as a "3c900 10BaseT[Boomerang]" card.
>>> I also made sure that it was obtaining IP stuff through DHCP.
>>>
>>> So far so good, this has worked in every other distro I've tried.
>>>
>>> Problem here is that on boot, my eth service doesn't start up. If I
>>> manually enter in my network info (IP address, subnet, etc.), then the
>>> service starts on boot, but I still can't connect to the Net.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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