Fedora Users — FC4 doesn't see NIC Cards


Thanks for your reply, Jon

First, I enter ifconfig -a and I see a normal output. Everything looksOK except

there are no input or output bytes.

When installing , I chose the "no firewall" option, and I didn't startany firewall.


IP addresses are static which I entered as part of the installation process.
Once again, the correct IP address appears in the ifconfig output.

Dave Harman

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Dave,

	Just because your drivers load and the OS starts the networking
service does not mean your network is configured properly.  What does the
"ifconfig" command output for you?   As Oliver noted, you might not be
receiving an IP address from your DCHP server or your firewall is blocking
you.

	Jon

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Subject: FC4 doesn't see NIC Cards



 I installed FC4 on a Dell Dimension 2400

This machine has 2 NIC cards - one for local network and

one for Internet

For some reason, FC cannot see the NIC cards.

When I examine DMESG, FC4 seems to find each card, identify the

driver, the MAC address of each card, and the IRQ to be used


Also the startup screen shows eth0 and eth1 starting with the green "OK"

But the route commands attempting to use dev eth0 or dev eth1

return "no such device" as an error message and when I try to

ping localhost or a static IP I get the message "network is unreachable"

The cables are plugged into the same hubs that other servers successfully

use.


Does anyone have an idea where I can look for solution?

And if I may be permitted a small rant, I think FC in general is a poor,

poor second to the regular releases we used to get from Red Hat. This is the

second time I've installed FC4 on this machine. The first time, the screen

would blink off for no reason, and BIND wouldn't see the local network.

Now, after the 2^nd installation, the screen behaves itself, but I haveproblems with


the network cards.

This stuff is supposed to run - like do useful things? - not be aproject which goes

on and on trying to get it to work. For me, the Fedora Project has "wedon't care" written


all over it.


End of Rant.

Thanks

Dave Harman