No network connection, unable to ping netgear router from RH Linux
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No network connection, unable to ping netgear router from RH Linux
Hi,
I recently partitioned the hard drive on my PC and installed Redhat 9. I have XP on the other partition. While I am able to access the network and ping the netgear router from the XP partition as well as from another XP laptop linked to the router, I am unable to do so from Linux.
The PC has an Intel EtherExpress/100 NIC. The NIC was not automatically recoginized during installation but seems to be ok after I installed the drivers. Could this be causing the problem?
I setup DHCP through the Network Configuration gui. dhclient returns with "No DHCPOFFERS received"
ifconfig does not show an IP address assigned to eth0.
if it was me, I would go to a shell prompt and type "setup" there is a text driven "gui-ish" menu that pops up and allows you to play with a bunch of settings from FW to network to keyboard, etc. I would start with redoing the network config, and then I would check the FW settings. I've also notice wierd nuances with selinux enabled, I generally disable it until I'm done building an image, and then re-enable for production.
# more /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
FORWARD_IPV4=yes
GATEWAYDEV=
GATEWAY=
# more /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:11:11:c5:51:46
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
# ping 192.168.0.1
connect: Network is unreachable
if it was me, I would go to a shell prompt and type "setup" there is a text driven "gui-ish" menu that pops up and allows you to play with a bunch of settings from FW to network to keyboard, etc. I would start with redoing the network config, and then I would check the FW settings. I've also notice wierd nuances with selinux enabled, I generally disable it until I'm done building an image, and then re-enable for production.
I tried setting up using this menu. No luck...I still get the same error. How do I figure out if the problem is with my NIC or with the way the m/c is communicating with the netgear router (RP614)? Would getting a new router help? Thanks!
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