Network card problem

[Robert L Cochran]

Looks like eth0 isn't getting an IP address from the dhcp server. Are 
you sure your DHCP server is up and running? Are other clients able to 
get IP addresses from it?

Bob


Trevor Ramoutar wrote:

> No problemo.
> 
> Here's the output of ifconfig:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:08:CE:ED:A0  
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:1
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00 
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:390002 (380.8 Kb)  TX bytes:390002 (380.8 Kb)
> 
> Here's the contents of ifcfg-eth0:
> 
> # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
> # for the documentation of these parameters.
> ONBOOT=yes
> USERCTL=no
> PEERDNS=yes
> TYPE=Ethernet
> DEVICE=eth0
> HWADDR=00:60:08:ce:ed:a0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> 
> I'm hoping that this makes more sense to you than it does to me...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jaap A. Haitsma
> Sent: October 17, 2003 6:34 PM
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Network card problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does not sound too bad what you have been doing, but in order to analyze
> 
> what's wrong can you send the output when you run ifconfig
> and maybe also your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file
> (assuming your network interface card is configured as eth0)
> 
> Jaap
> 
> 
> 
> Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I just install Fedora Test 3 and have encountered my first problem.
>>
>>Fedora detected my Ethernet card as a "3c900 10BaseT[Boomerang]" card.
>>I also made sure that it was obtaining IP stuff through DHCP.
>>
>>So far so good, this has worked in every other distro I've tried.
>>
>>Problem here is that on boot, my eth service doesn't start up.  If I
>>manually enter in my network info (IP address, subnet, etc.), then the
>>service starts on boot, but I still can't connect to the Net.
>>
>>Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
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