FC4 and Intel 82559 NIC?

[Harold Hallikainen]

> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 19:06 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> >
>> > This weekend I loaded FC4 onto my server that had been running RH8.
Everything seems to have gone smoothly EXCEPT the LAN does not work.
>> It
>> > seems to find the two ethernet interfaces, but does not talk to the
remainder of the network. I've tried both static IP and DHCP. Neither
seems to work. Do I need a special driver for the NIC? If so, where do
>> I
>> > find it, and how do I install it?
>> >
>> > THANKS!
>> >
>> > Harold
>> >
>> Following up... I found the e100 driver at
>> http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/1000/linux/e100.htm and
followed the instructions there. Stuff is still not working. Looking at
/var/log/messages, I see
>> e100: eth0: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xd6202000, irq 11, MAC addr
00:E0:81:03:AF:3C
>> I see a similar message for eth1.
>> A while later is
>> e100: eth0: e100_wathcdog: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex
>> A while later it cannot find ntp.org
>> Then NETDEV WATCHDOG eth0; transmit timed out
>> then another watchdog message.
>> Any ideas?
>
> First, as the root user, do "ifconfig" and verify that there's actually
IP addresses assigned to your NIC.  Next (also as root), do "netstat -rn"
and verify that the default gateway is pointing at your router.
>
> If that's all good, then you may be blocked by either iptables or
SELinux.  Try turning off iptables temporarily by "service iptables off"
(as root again).  If that doesn't work, try (as root) "setenforce 0" to
temporarily disable SELinux.
>


Thanks for the responses! It's really a pain to not have network
connectivity. I can't just copy and paste stuff into an email. Instead,
I'm copying off one screen and typing on another (my laptop). So excuse
the typos! It's interesting that I'm having network problems with this one
machine. I've installed FC4 on another server and my laptop with no
problem. Oh well...

I tried the stuff above to get the network back and was about to type all
the results when I thought I'd try something else (anything to avoid
typing all that stuff). This is a dual processor machine that had always
worked fine using SMP on RH8. I tried telling it to NOT run smp on a
reboot, and the network works great! No other changes! I'll mess with it
some more in the next couple days. Is anyone else running smp on FC4?

THANKS for all the help!

Harold


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