Determining IP information for eth0 failed

[Bert Haskins]

Jeff Vian wrote:

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>>> In /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 I have: USERCTL=yes 
>>> PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=00:40:f4:6f:b4:90 
>>> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>>> (Information for NETMASK, DOMAIN, IPADDR, DHCP_HOSTNAME, GATEWAY, 
>>> NETWORK and BROADCAST
>>> seem to be missing. Should I fill in these myself,(and with which 
>>> values), or should
>>> DHCP/something else do this for me?) 
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>> At least IPADDR and NETMASK should really be there...
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> He is using DHCP.
> With that he should not manually assign the information you ask for.  
> He also should not assign the nameservers by default unless his admin 
> has messed up the dhcp config and it is not handing out addresses and 
> other required information properly.
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> However one line that is missing from his file that is in mine by 
> default is "   ONBOOT='yes'  "  This tells the system to activate the 
> interface at boot time. 

Well, I found out what my problem was.
Somehow it the process of trying to make a new Wireless card ( Linksys 
WPC11 ) work, I
had swapped back in a different RBE100 nic ( I have several ).
Evidently, the differences in the MAC address made it "bite the big one".
I removed the card, also in the network configation and did some power 
up/down cycles
and eventually the system figured out the it had a different nic.
I really wasted a bunch of time on this one.
Now its back to trying to make Alsa work on this 390X..... not an easy task.

I hope that this may help out someone else.
Thanks,
      Bert
 

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