Guest stompalot Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 Hi, I've been Googling for the last couple of hours and have had no joy..... I'm trying to set up a LAN at home 3 PC's all running XP connected to my PC which is running Madrake 10.2 CE. The XP machines will hopefully connect to mine so they can use my printer and internet connection which is an external modem and works fine.. When i boot up it says bringing up eth0 --- failed. ifconfig gives me the following eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:BD:9A:26 inet6 addr: fe80::220:edff:febd:9a26/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1995 (1.9 Kb) TX bytes:2772 (2.7 Kb) Interrupt:17 Base address:0x1f00 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:2490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:178032 (173.8 Kb) TX bytes:178032 (173.8 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:81.76.146.48 P-t-P:195.92.168.35 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:64 (64.0 b) TX bytes:97 (97.0 b) running ifup eth0 just comes up with failed. I've tried running modprobe 8139too and that works lsmod | grep 8139too gives the following 8139too 20928 0 mii 4224 1 8139t The network card is PCI and is Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Ethernet NIC My hub is a Linksys 5 Hub....... How do i set it up and where do i find all the IP and gateway and DHCPD stuff from? Sorry if i'm being a tad stupid :) Thanks Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco Araurlis Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 (edited) I'm guessing that your eth0 is setup to receive the IP information via DHCP. With that in mind what you need to do is set it up with a static ip address and other related information (gateway, DNS etc) and then setup a DHCP server in Linux to listen to eth0 and have your Windows machines set to use DHCP for their IP addresses Here's a really basic howto http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/dhcp.php Asking questions is not even remotely stupid - not asking them is. Edited November 5, 2004 by Draco Araurlis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stompalot Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 (edited) Thanks for the reply, i'll had a quick look at the link and i'll try setting it up in the morning. when you say...... I'm guessing that your eth0 is setup to receive the IP information via DHCP. I've just found out that on windows my computer is the DHCP server and assigns IP address' to the others. I presume this means that i have to set up my computer as a DHCP server on linux? Thanks Jon Edited November 5, 2004 by stompalot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco Araurlis Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Yep and have your windows PCs ethernet connection set to get their IP address, Default gateway and DNS server automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stompalot Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 Getting somewhere. My network card and setting now seem to be set up. I can ping my other machine and by the looks of it its eing given an IP address by mine. The problem is that whenever the network eth0 (lan) is running my dial up internet connection (ppp) is down. If i ifdown eth0 and redial the net connection is OK. When eth0 is up i connect ok but nothing is transfered. The oject of all this is to get my other windows XP computer to share my dial up internet connection. Here are my settings With no ppp conected i get [root@Jon jon]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:BD:9A:26 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::220:edff:febd:9a26/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:959 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3990 (3.8 Kb) TX bytes:66835 (65.2 Kb) Interrupt:17 Base address:0x1f00 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:629 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:629 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:59794 (58.3 Kb) TX bytes:59794 (58.3 Kb) When the modem is connected (ppp) this is added on to ifconfig ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:62.137.123.8 P-t-P:195.92.168.32 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:64 (64.0 b) TX bytes:97 (97.0 b Netstat - rn when ppp is not connected is [root@Jon jon]# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 When ppp is not running i get [root@Jon jon]# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 195.92.168.33 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Thanks for any help, Rgds Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stompalot Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 Stil can't get this sorted. Here's my config files, may be of use in finding the problem. /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-lo DEVICE=lo IPADDR=127.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=127.0.0.0 # 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 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 ONBOOT=yes METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no Thanks for any help, Rgds Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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