samer1275 Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Hello, let me first refer you to an older thread: Thread where a kind person was able to help me get dhcp working with Mandrake 9.2. I just upgraded to 10.0 community and eth0 fails once again. But I cannot fix it the same way as before. I have a 3com card, once again: modules.conf says: alias eth0 3c59x ifup eth0 says: Determining Info for eth0...failed, no link present. Check cable? modprobe eth0 says nothing. The contents of my ifcfg-eth0 are: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes NEEDHOSTNAME=no The contents of my ifcfg-lo are: DEVICE=lo IPADDR=127.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=255.255.255.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=127.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback I changed the numbers of NETWORK or NETMASK to 255... I can't remember, but that didn't change anything finally, the output of ifconfig is: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:B7:5A:11 inet6 addr: fe80::260:97ff:feb7:5a11/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:824 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:277693 (271.1 Kb) TX bytes:756 (756.0 B) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xef00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4896 (4.7 Kb) TX bytes:4896 (4.7 Kb) Thanks so much in advance! Edit: moved from Software by spinynorman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 OK. Lets deterime what you changed where :D Last time you had DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes [b]MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no NEEDHOSTNAME=no [/b] So its not the same.... try this first ... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samer1275 Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 I tried that (booted with the MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no line) and eth0 failed immediately, as before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 OK type this ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 see what is says... if no error then do ifconfig eth0 (post back) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samer1275 Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 I did that and it gave no errors, now ifconfig eth0 says: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:B7:5A:11 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::260:97ff:feb7:5a11/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8631 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2904058 (2.7 Mb) TX bytes:1134 (1.1 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xef00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 OK, do you know what DHCP range you SHOULD be getting. i.e. what is the DHCP server giving out.... I wanna try and set in manually firsdt and see if it works... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samer1275 Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 I don't really know what you mean. I'm sorry, I don't know much about networking. I have a cable modem with a router. The IP address that it gives is 68.... If you give me specific instructions, I can try to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 OK, lets say it gives you an IP 68.21.21.1 by booting in windows or something else.... then we can type ifconfig eth0 68.21.21.9 (for instance) and you should then be able to ping the router... If you cant its another problem than DHCP but if you can its a prob with the DHCP somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenEye Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 Hi there... I thing that you can use dhclient as SU for ask a new offer from your DHCP Network Server. But for that you have to verify the cable and if that server is well working and full operating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samer1275 Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 huh? Sorry, I don't have a clue what you mean. What I can say is that I am certain that my hardware is working properly and that this is a software problem only. The reason I know is that I can get Linux to connect to the internet with that computer, but I cannot get Mandrake Linux 10.0 to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 which linx ??? can you do the same in the 'other' linux (lsmod and stuff) and well can compare it. The link error might be true of false... Im trying to determine this by setting it manually and then we 'know' its the DHCP part, not the driver settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samer1275 Posted May 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 with Knoppix 3.2, the internet works fine, previously, I had RedHat 8.0, worked fine... for some reason, I had trouble with Mandrake 9.2, and now 10.0 anyway, in Knoppix (which works), there aren't any scripts but ipconfig gives the following output: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:B7:5A:11 inet6 addr: fe80::260:97ff:feb7:5a11/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:824 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:277693 (271.1 Kb) TX bytes:756 (756.0 B) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xef00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4896 (4.7 Kb) TX bytes:4896 (4.7 Kb) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 knoppix uses pppoe-conf and scans for the concentrator (at least for ADSL) it then uses this to create a ppp0 I think that MDK 10 is now doing a similar thing if you use drakconf and dont woory about getting a dhcp address allocated .... (i.e you dont actually need one) Ill post from ghome later when I can check./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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