FC4 doesn't see NIC Cards
Jonathan Hull
jhull2 at twcny.rr.com
Mon Aug 22 23:49:47 UTC 2005
Dave,
Just because your drivers load and the OS starts the networking
service does not mean your network is configured properly. What does the
"ifconfig" command output for you? As Oliver noted, you might not be
receiving an IP address from your DCHP server or your firewall is blocking
you.
Jon
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From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Dave Harman
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:33 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: FC4 doesn't see NIC Cards
I installed FC4 on a Dell Dimension 2400
This machine has 2 NIC cards - one for local network and
one for Internet
For some reason, FC cannot see the NIC cards.
When I examine DMESG, FC4 seems to find each card, identify the
driver, the MAC address of each card, and the IRQ to be used
Also the startup screen shows eth0 and eth1 starting with the green "OK"
But the route commands attempting to use dev eth0 or dev eth1
return "no such device" as an error message and when I try to
ping localhost or a static IP I get the message "network is unreachable"
The cables are plugged into the same hubs that other servers successfully
use.
Does anyone have an idea where I can look for solution?
And if I may be permitted a small rant, I think FC in general is a poor,
poor second to the regular releases we used to get from Red Hat. This is the
second time I've installed FC4 on this machine. The first time, the screen
would blink off for no reason, and BIND wouldn't see the local network.
Now, after the 2^nd installation, the screen behaves itself, but I have
problems with
the network cards.
This stuff is supposed to run - like do useful things? - not be a
project which goes
on and on trying to get it to work. For me, the Fedora Project has "we
don't care" written
all over it.
End of Rant.
Thanks
Dave Harman
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