Hello everyone,
I am running RH 8.0. My network card was working just fine and then one day just flopped over. I have tried
reactivating it using the GUI and using the command ifup eth0, but nothing seems to work. Any thoughts?
First, provide technical descriptions of the failures, not metaphorical ones (e.g., "just flopped over" is colorful but not very informative). Beyond that ...
What were the symptoms of the initial failure? Did it occur out of the blue, or after a reboot, or what?
What does happen when you try to reactivate the interface? That is, what happens when you enter (as root) the command "ifup eth0"?
What is the complete, unedited output of "ifconfig -a"? (After you do the above attempt to reactivate, or right after a fresh boot/init, but tell us which you are reporting.)
What kernel are you running ("uname -a")? Is it stock or one you compiled locally?
What sort of NIC is it? What kernel module(s) does it use (or is the driver compiled into the kernel)?
Is there any possibility of either a physical failure of the NIC or a BIOS problem?
During the boot/init sequence, does the kernel (or the loading of the relevant module) detect the NIC? (This info will show up in the dmesg buffer, which RH *may* write out someplace like /var/log/dmesg .)
You may have checked some of this already, but I don't know what actual efforts are covered by your statement that "nothing seems to work", so I decided to be inclusive rather than risk skipping something useful because it was too "obvious" to ask about.
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