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I am in need of some assistance. My ethernet card and
connection to our LAN worked previously with Linux 7.2 configured as BOOTPROTO=dchp. I have 2 other machine running the same Linux 7.2 and they perform the DHCP just fine. Now, when I boot the machine to Linux 7.2 or do an "ifup eth0" or a "service network restart" I get the following:
Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0....failed.
I don't understand what has changed that could cause this problem to occur as I did not change anything in Linux. Now, I know that the LAN and the card work with DHCP in Windows XP PRO (on the SAME machine) as the Internet Explorer is working perfectly, so it must be something that changed in the Linux side of the house. Thank you for your time and consideration!
Have you changed anything on this PC, software or hardware?
Is the ethernet card link light illuminated?
Is the hub, switch, or whatever is on the other end show a link?
Does the output of lsmod show the NIC module loaded?
Try using ifconfig to manually configure an IP address. Any problems?
Have you changed anything on this PC, software or hardware?
No, I have not changed anything on this PC in the ways of hardware or software. NOTE: This very same computer in the exact same configuration works on the NET in Windows XP with DHCP configured!
Is the ethernet card link light illuminated?
YES, the ethernet card link light is illuminated green (on the card itself).
Is the hub, switch, or whatever is on the other end show a link?
YES, the hub on the other end that goes out to the network shows a "green link light" as well.
Does the output of lsmod show the NIC module loaded?
When I do a lsmod, I get the following modules loaded:
It does not appear to be loading my Ethernet module!!!
Try using ifconfig to manually configure an IP address. Any problems?
When I use ifconfig manually to configure an IP Address, I do the following:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.110
ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 (the IP of our router)
when I do an ifconfig, everything appears to be fine, but I can ping myself and I cannot ping anyone else and they cannot ping me!!! I get "destination host unreachable".
Thank you very much for your continued support in the solving of my problem!!!
After LOOKING AT the configuration in Windows....I can see that we have two (2) ethernet cards in this machine and that I was plugged into the wrong port!!!!!!!!! Now, everything works fine!!! Thank you so very much for all of your assistance!
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