FAILED for eth0

[Paul Smith]

On 8/17/06, Brad Bonkoski <bbonkoski at mediaguide.com> wrote:
> what do you get when you run /sbin/ifconfig -a?
> Perhaps the new network card requires a different driver for your kernel...
> And if you are not familiar with the process of building/loading new
> modules for the kernel, I am not sure if there is an *easy* way to do
> this, except for letting the installer run and guessing what modules you
> need....
>
> >> > When I turn off my computer, I get an OK for everything, except for
> >> > eth0. Is there some way of automatically reconfiguring that device?
> >>
> >> Your query is a bit vague,
> >> but the entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> >> has to be correct.
> >> The various network wizards should hopefully do this.
> >
> > Thanks, Timothy. I agree that my query is vague, but I do not know how
> > to make it more detailed. Maybe someone could tell me what I should
> > add to describe better my problem. However, I suspect from what I see
> > at shutdown time that the problem is related with HWADDR. The content
> > of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is quoted below:
> >
> > # more /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> > # Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=none
> > HWADDR=00:30:4F:2B:8C:84
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > IPADDR=192.168.1.2
> > USERCTL=no
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > PEERDNS=yes
> > GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
> > #
> >
> > I would like to add that my Ethernet card was changed together with
> > the processor upgrade.

Thanks, Brad. The result of '/sbin/ifconfig -a' follows:

# /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:85:38:2C:93
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::214:85ff:fe38:2c93/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:273531 errors:1057 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:929
          TX packets:310170 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1057 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:181391697 (172.9 MiB)  TX bytes:72930268 (69.5 MiB)
          Interrupt:177

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2434 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2434 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2298167 (2.1 MiB)  TX bytes:2298167 (2.1 MiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

#

Paul