dhcp not working on machine

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 05:40 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com>
> > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:21:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: dhcp not working on machine
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 16:02 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > Dear list,
> > > 
> > > dhcp is not working on one of my machines.  
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Try changing your /etc/modprobe.conf file from:
> > 
> >     alias eth0 8139cp
> > 
> > to
> > 
> >     alias eth0 8139too
> > 
> > The log is saying that your hardware isn't compatible with the 8139cp
> > driver and that you should try the 8139too driver.  And the last bit
> > of what you included above shows the 8139too driver identifying your
> > stuff.

> 
> Rick,
> 
> modprobe.conf is as follows
> 
> [root at localhost Documents]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias scsi_hostadapter pata_sis
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> 
> 
> The machine hangs at gathering IP information.  It does not move any further.  To achieve a connection on this machine, I disconnect the ethernet cable and manually assign it an IP.  What could be wrong here?
> 
> While the device is disconnected booting goes on as normal.
> 
> dmesg shows this
> 
> sis96x_smbus 0000:00:02.1: SiS96x SMBus base address: 0x10c0
> rtc_cmos 00:04: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
> rtc0: alarms up to one year
> 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
> 8139cp 0000:00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
> 8139cp 0000:00:0f.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead.

That sounds like the system is trying to install the driver anyway,
regardless of what you have in modprobe.conf.  My guess is that you
could add it to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file so it doesn't get
loaded in the future.

> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
> 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
> firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:00:10.0, OHCI version 1.0
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xde95e000, 00:30:1b:3e:d4:b7, IRQ 22
> eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
> 
> 
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
> Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
> nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (3839 buckets, 30712 max)
> NET: Registered protocol family 10
> lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
> Mobile IPv6
> eth0: link down
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> 
> 
> After connecting 
> eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> 
> Smolt profile is here:
> 
> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=b789470a-11cc-4097-acd7-c022ad437d6b

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