FC4 and Intel 82559 NIC?

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 20:46 -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> > 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?

I do, a lot.  Two things to check...first, make bloody sure the
motherboard is running the latest BIOS from the vendor.  If this is an
AMD-based SMP machine, try booting with the "noapic" option set (add
" noapic" to the end of the kernel line at the grub boot screen).
If you don't know how to do that:

1. Boot the machine.

2. At the screen that displays the various kernels, use the arrow keys
to select the SMP kernel and hit "E".

3. Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the line that starts with
"kernel".

4. Hit "E" again.  Use the arrow keys to go to the end of the line.

5. Put in " noapic" (don't forget the space) at the end of the line.

6. Hit "ENTER" to exit the edit mode, then "B" to boot the machine.

7. The machine should now boot with the "noapic" option.

NOTE: This is temporary and will only survive this boot.  If you need
the "noapic" option permanently, you must edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf
file.

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