FC3 installation - Network/internet problems

biggyfries · 12-12-2004, 01:15 PM

I, too, am having the same issue with Fedora 3.

With my machine, i have only 1 NIC--a realtek card. Under WinXP, Suse 9.1, and Ubuntu, it did not have a problem with my network at all. Once i installed FC3, i started having issues.

I usually set up my boxes with static settings thru my Linksys router. With FC3, i could not do that initially, and i got it working with dhcp. a couple of reboots later, and i was offline again. this time, i set up up static (same config as before), and it worked. a couple of reboots later again, and i am now back @ dhcp.

I have seen a couple of threads on FC3 and networking issues. Could this be because of IPv6 and v4?

I am not @ home now, but if needed, i could get my eth0 info tonight.

I really want to stick with FC3, but if this keeps giving me trouble i will find another distro.

thanks.

dan

mermxx · 12-12-2004, 04:02 PM

If u r going static then ur ifcfg -eth0 wants to look like this
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=192.168.1.102
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
TYPE=Ethernet
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
Why not try running your network configuration tool and start it from scratch. Then the right set up should be auto added to your /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 or similar file

tom@home · 12-13-2004, 12:11 PM

Hi everyone,

[edit 12/14/04 I deleted the contents of this post today, because I've made some serious mistakes when setting up my network config that provoked all these errors. Sometimes a little reading might help

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biggyfries · 12-17-2004, 03:07 PM

Ok. after leaving my machine on for a few days, X locked up on me and i had to reboot. After rebooting, i was not able to get online with my previously-static IP, so i changed back to dhcp, and i am now online. here is my ifcong -a (i changed the MAC to xx's):

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          inet addr:192.168.1.252  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:764665 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:235589 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1101287460 (1.0 GiB)  TX bytes:16110599 (15.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1676350 (1.5 MiB)  TX bytes:1676350 (1.5 MiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

and here is my route -n:

Code:

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

i am pretty sure i still have IPv6 on; would this be a problem? between this and not having any sound thru my dvd burner (worked before with diff distro), i am seriosly considering switching again.

any help on this, please?

thanks,
dan

jac0b · 01-02-2005, 11:53 AM

I would turn off IPv6. I am trying FC3 right now and I turned it off, which makes it go smoother on the net. If so add that to your /etc/modprobe.conf

Code:

alias net-pf-10 off