Network Not Working in Linux ; Works in Windows Why ?

Allen Chen achen at harbourfrontcentre.com
Mon May 9 13:43:21 UTC 2005


John Smith wrote:

>Hi, 
>I have just installed RedHat  in my system (Dual OS : Windows and 
>Linux) 
>I can ping any system on the network under windows. 
>
>
>But, when i ping any system on the network under Linux I get, 
>Undestination Unreachable error. 
>
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>I have Inter Pro 100 Ethernet card on my system. 
>
>
>The Static IP is same for Windows and Linux. 
>
>
>When i do ifconfig ; i am getting ip, netmask everything is ok. except 
>Tx Packets and Rx Packets which are 0. 
>
>
>I tried 
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>cardctl ident 
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>I got an message saying no devices in /proc/devices. 
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>I dont know what is the problem. 
>
>
>I checked The driver is e100 it is loaded. but still network is not 
>working. 
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>Please advice. 
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>
>Would appreciate if you could tell me what (steps) i should do inorder 
>to correct my problem. 
>
>
>List Of Commands and thier results:
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>john.maxi... at gmail.com   May 6, 6:32 pm     show options 
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>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.networking 
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>Date: 6 May 2005 06:02:09 -0700 
>Local: Fri,May 6 2005 6:32 pm  
>Subject: Re: Destination Unreachanble: Fedora Core 2 : Network Does not work. 
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>Hi, 
>
>
>I am giving the outputs of the following command for assitance. 
>
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>Name Network Card: Inter Pro 100 
>Nature Of Problem: Network Works while in Windows (i am able to ping to 
>any machine). But, in Linux it does Not Work, unable to ping to any 
>machine on network. 
>get Errror: Destination Host Unrechable. 
>
>
>Details Of Commands Executed: 
>------------------------------­--------------- 
>Command: cardctl ident 
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>no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices 
>------------------------------­------------------ 
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>
>Command: ifconfig -a 
>------------------------------­----------------- 
>
>
>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:E2:49:1A:A9 
>          inet addr:XX.YY.13.88  Bcast:192.168.13.255 
>Mask:255.255.255.0 
>          inet6 addr: fe80::200:e2ff:fe49:1aa9/64 Scope:Link 
>          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:0 carrier:0 
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) 
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>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:2389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
>          TX packets:2389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>          RX bytes:2724120 (2.5 Mb)  TX bytes:2724120 (2.5 Mb) 
>
>
>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) 
>------------------------------­-------------------- 
>Command: /sbin/iptables -L 
>
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>Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) 
>target     prot opt source               destination 
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>Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) 
>target     prot opt source               destination 
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>Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) 
>target     prot opt source               destination 
>------------------------------­-------------------------- 
>Command: /sbin/route -n 
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>
>Kernel IP routing table 
>Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
>Iface 
>XX.YY.13.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
>eth0 
>169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 
>eth0 
>127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 
>lo 
>0.0.0.0         XX.YY.13.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 
>eth0 
>------------------------------­-------------------------- 
>Command: cat /etc/sysconfig/network 
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>
>NETWORKING=yes 
>HOSTNAME=ShriRama 
>------------------------------­-------------------------- 
>Command: cat /etc/sysconfig/network 
>
>
>DEVICE=eth0 
>ONBOOT=yes 
>BOOTPROTO=static 
>IPADDR=XX.YY.13.88 
>NETMASK=255.255.255.0 
>GATEWAY=XX.YY.13.1 
>------------------------------­--------------------------- 
>Command: cat /etc/resolv.conf 
>
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>nameserver XX.YY.10.1 
>------------------------------­------------------------------ 
>Command : /sbin/lsmod 
>Module                  Size  Used by 
>iptable_filter          2048  0 
>ip_tables              13440  1 iptable_filter 
>parport_pc             19392  1 
>lp                      8236  0 
>parport                29640  2 parport_pc,lp 
>autofs4                10624  0 
>sunrpc                101064  1 
>e100                   25348  0 
>mii                     3584  1 e100 
>floppy                 47440  0 
>sg                     27552  0 
>scsi_mod               91344  1 sg 
>microcode               4768  0 
>dm_mod                 33184  0 
>joydev                  6976  0 
>uhci_hcd               23708  0 
>button                  4504  0 
>battery                 6924  0 
>asus_acpi               8472  0 
>ac                      3340  0 
>ipv6                  184288  8 
>ext3                  102376  3 
>jbd                    40216  1 ext3 
>
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> The Output of lspci corresponding to my adapter is 
>01:08:0 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corp 
>82801 BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01) 
>
>
>Hope this helps to identify my problem. 
>
>
>
>Regards, 
>John
>
>  
>
Please send me the output of pstree command.




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