I solved it the Microsoft way, was Re: ethernet not working
Laurence
laurence at orchards.org.uk
Tue May 3 23:30:39 UTC 2005
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?
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