I get a message *Determining* **IP** **information** **for** **eth0**... failed when i try to activate my eth0 card. I am on a DSL line behind a Linksys router. My NIC is a 3Com 3c900 Combo
It woudl appear that I am not getting DHCP information from the router, but I am not sure how to remedy this.
Two other computers behind the router are working fine, but neither is running Linux
Any help would be greatly appreciated
With the 3com card, it could be a lot of different causes. See bug below.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107389
If the card is alright and not effected by any of the similar complaints in the bug report, it might be ECN related. You might try running this command below to see if ECN is causing the dhcp error. This command sets ECN to off.
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
I had a similar problem with a 3com NIC before, but it said to check the cable on bootup. The cable was fine and the card worked in prior RHL versions. To get a lease on that card, I ran dhclient from a root command line. This move worked to get a lease, but did not work well for mozilla or for gnome. KDE and commandline tools worked fine with this aproach.
Good luck,
Jim
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