Thanks for the support, but it still won't work. So, let's recapitulate my settings:
*Fast Ethernet 10/100M PCI network card
*FC1 Gnome
*module 8139too loaded
*When I try to activate eth0 via redhat-config-network or dhclient, I recieve the error
"Determining IP information for eth0.... Failed"
In /etc/hosts I have:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
In etc/modules.conf I have:
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias eth0 8139too
(deleted the "options 8139too io=0xe400 irq=11")
In $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo I have:
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
In /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 I have:
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:40:f4:6f:b4:90
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
(Information for NETMASK, DOMAIN, IPADDR, DHCP_HOSTNAME, GATEWAY, NETWORK and BROADCAST
seem to be missing. Should I fill in these myself,(and with which values), or should
DHCP/something else do this for me?)
The command "ifconfig -a" gives:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:6F:B4:90
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:236210 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:14275029 (13.6 Mb) TX bytes:288990 (282.2 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:5939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5271644 (5.0 Mb) TX bytes:5271644 (5.0 Mb)
(The IPs for inet addr, Bcast and Mask are missing)
I can only ping localhost, every other IP gives "Network unreachable". Defining a static
IP in the GUI of redhat-config-network doesn't change a thing (and my ISP works with
dynamic IPs anyway, so I don't think I need to define any static IP).
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.140 ms
.....
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.132 ms
--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5012ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.126/0.135/0.140/0.004 ms, pipe 2
In the GUI-interface for redhat-config-network, I selected "automatically obtain IP
adress settings with DHCP", so I should get my DNS information from there. But even if I
do specify the domain of my ISP, and a primary and secondary nameserver in
/etc/resolv.conf, I still get the dreaded "Determining IP information for eth0...
failed"error when I try to activate eth0.
If I start DHCP Client manually (command "dhclient"), I get the (error)message:
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:40:f4:6f:b4:90
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:40:f4:6f:b4:90
Listening on LPF/lo/
Sending on LPF/lo/
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
....
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
(looks like no broadcast is received)
I'm not sure it's relevant, but when the fibrecable from the ISP comes into my house, it
goes to a switch> From there one cable goes to a Windows PC, and one to an
ex-Windows-now-Limux PC (mine, the one with troubles)>
printer
/
pc1 (windows)
\
\
Switch/hub--------cablemodem-----fibrecable-------myISP---------Internet
/
/
pc2 (Linux)
I mention this, because I was thinking that I should search the solution into
masquarading, gateways, etc.
The output of "route -n"
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
The output of "iptables -L -n -v" (because I tought it maybe could be a firewall related
problem):
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
2728 303K RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 277 packets, 55759 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
277 55759 ACCEPT all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
icmp type 255
0 0 ACCEPT esp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
0 0 ACCEPT ah -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
0 0 ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
state NEW tcp dpt:25
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
state NEW tcp dpt:80
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
state NEW tcp dpt:21
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
state NEW tcp dpt:22
2451 247K REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
Thanks for the help, looking forward to the solution,
Jeroen
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