Hi, I am a newbie, so bare with me here. I installed RH9 a couple days ago and have been working relentlessly to get my DSL up and running. I am dual booting with Win2k and my DSL works fine on Win2k. Here is a rundown of the situation:
I am using Earthlink DSL with a dynamic IP and am using dhcp.
My NIC [Linksys NC100] is recognized and is configured to use the tulip driver.
On boot-up, I get the message "Bringing up interface eth0...Determining IP information for eth0......failed". I get the same second part of the error message when I try to activate eth0 under Network Devices.
I have made sure that /etc/modules.conf contains alias eth0 tulip.
This is what I get from dmesg:
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ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xe0926000, 00:04:5A:6F:22:38, IRQ 10.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
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This is what I can find of relevence in /var/log/messages:
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Aug 2 02:07:37 localhost ifup: failed.
Aug 2 02:07:39 localhost kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1
Aug 2 02:07:37 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
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Aug 2 02:07:44 localhost kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Aug 2 02:07:44 localhost kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
Aug 2 02:07:44 localhost kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xe0926000, 00:04:5A:6F:22:38, IRQ 10.
Aug 2 02:07:45 localhost xinetd[3470]: xinetd Version 2.3.10 started with libwrap options compiled in.
Aug 2 02:07:45 localhost xinetd[3470]: Started working: 1 available service
Aug 2 02:07:46 localhost xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:47 localhost sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:47 localhost sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:48 localhost gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:48 localhost crond: crond startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:51 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Aug 2 02:07:51 localhost kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Aug 2 02:07:51 localhost kernel: lp0: console ready
Aug 2 02:07:51 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-188
Aug 2 02:07:51 localhost last message repeated 15 times
Aug 2 02:07:51 localhost cups: cupsd startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:52 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:52 localhost anacron: anacron startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:53 localhost atd: atd startup succeeded
Aug 2 02:07:53 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic (unreadable)
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Aug 2 02:21:18 localhost dhclient: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0pl1
Aug 2 02:21:18 localhost dhclient: Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
Aug 2 02:21:18 localhost dhclient: All rights reserved.
Aug 2 02:21:18 localhost dhclient: For info, please visit [can't post URL]
Aug 2 02:21:18 localhost dhclient:
Aug 2 02:21:20 localhost dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:04:5a:6f:22:38
Aug 2 02:21:20 localhost dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:04:5a:6f:22:38
Aug 2 02:21:20 localhost dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Aug 2 02:21:22 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Aug 2 02:21:25 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Aug 2 02:21:29 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Aug 2 02:21:37 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
Aug 2 02:21:58 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
Aug 2 02:22:15 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost root: punching nameserver Earthlink through the firewall
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost root: punching nameserver Mindspring through the firewall
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost ifup: iptables v1.2.7a: host/network 'Earthlink' not found
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost ifup: Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost ifup: iptables v1.2.7a: host/network `Mindspring'not found
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost ifup: Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost ifup:
Aug 2 02:22:49 localhost ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
Aug 2 02:22:50 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Aug 2 02:22:54 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Aug 2 02:23:00 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Aug 2 02:23:07 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
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I tried changing the DNS 207.217.126.81[Primary] and 207.217.77.82 [Secondary], but to no avail.
I appreciate all of the help I can get and I will try ANYTHING to get this DSL up and running.
P.S. It says Earthlink and Mindspring in the log without the proper addressing because I cannot post URLs until I get 5 posts.
