----- Original Message ----- From: "Waldemar Jankowski" <waldemar@xxxxxxxxxxx> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 5:43 PM Subject: Re: Network Card Installation FC3 > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Andoni wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Did that and rebooted, now the card is picked up on startup and installed. > > > > I now have a file: > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > > > But when I type ifconfig I still only get the loopback address. > > > > What did one of the replies mean by: > > "then edit the new profile and it should work" > > > > Where is "the new profile"? > > > > TIA. > > > > Andoni. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Waldemar Jankowski" <waldemar@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general > > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 4:21 PM > > Subject: Re: Network Card Installation FC3 > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Andoni wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I have just added an old ISA PnP 3Com network card to my newly installed > > FC3 machine. > > > > > > > > Kudzu seems to have picked up and installed the card fine but when I do > > "ifconfig" it only has the loopback address. > > > > > > > > When I do "ping 192.XXX.XXX.XXX" I get an error of "Network is > > Unreachable". > > > > > > > > What do I have to do next to get the card to work? > > > > > > > > In the directory /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts there is a file called > > ifcfg-lo but none called ifcfg-eth0. Do I have to make this myself? > > > > I say the card seems to have been detected as it is lised in > > /etc/sysconfig/hwconf > > > > > > > > In the BIOS should I set FC3 as a PnP OS? Is that only for Windows? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any and all help. > > > > > > > > Andoni. > > > > > > > > > > As root type netconfig at the prompt. It will take you through network > > > setup. > > > > > As root type the following two commands: > > /etc/init.d/network stop > > /etc/init.d/network start > > This will restart the network and read your new setup. You should be all > set. There is a number of valid ways to set up the card ... this is just > the way I usually do it. > This just get's stranger and stranger! I did that and it stopped only the loopback: perfect. Then /etc/init.d/network start and it started both loopback and eth0, perfect. So then I did ifconfig and it gave me only the loopback. I tried the stop again and it only had the loopback to stop! Andoni.
