On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 12:30 -0500, Peter Horst wrote: > I am unable to get a new eMachine t3418 running FC-5 onto a home network > with a Belkin Pre-N wireless router. I am connecting it via one of the > Belkin's 4 CAT5 ports, not via the wireless. The Belkin provides NAT > and DHCP at 192.168.2.1. I now have a XP Pro laptop connected via > wireless and a second FC-5 machine, an old PII-450. The eMachine in > question is not running X Windows. > > I had asked earlier on this list and the group kindly advised me to try > a few things for diagnostic purposes, so here's some (somewhat > abbreviated) output. I should mention that I talked to Belkin and they > suggested assigning the eMachine an IP address, so I edited > /etc/sysconfig/network, which didn't make the slightest difference. > Either way, the machine gives me: "Determining IP information for > eth0...failed." > > Anything jump out here? > > Thanks for any assistance... > > --------------------------------------- > # /sbin/ethtool eth0 > Settings for eth0: > Supports auto-negotiation: Yes > Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes > Auto-negotiation: on > Link detected: yes > > # dmesg | tail > NET: Registered protocol family 10 > lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver > eth0: no IPv6 routers present > > # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 > RX packets: 28 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0 > TX packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0 > RX bytes:3496 (3.4 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt: 17 Base address: 0xc000 Notice you don't have "UP or anything else on that card. > # cat resolv.conf > > # cat /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 obtunded localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.2.123 obtunded > > # /bin/netstat -rn > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 > lo > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > ONBOOT=yes > HOSTNAME=obtunded > IPADDR=192.168.2.123 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > GATEWAY=192.168.2.1 > GATEWAYDEV=eth0 Bad. /etc/sysconfig/network should only contain: NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=obtunded GATEWAY=192.168.2.1 The device-specific stuff should be in the "ifcfg-eth0" script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Here's one you can paste into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.2.123 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 Once you have that set up, then, as root: # service network restart OR # ifup eth0 The problem is your network card is never started. The startup scripts want "ifcfg-eth*" config files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't TOUCH anything!" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
