At 07:33 AM 2/7/00 -0500, AMH wrote:
>Thank you all for the reply. I am in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. What
actually
>I did was to configure network from GNOME control panel -> network
>configuration. There I opened interfaces and for eth0 I gave my ip address,
>proto - dhcp, atboot -yes, inactive. For routing I gave interface - eth0,
>netmask and gateway. There is one more field "Network" I don't know what to
>write there.
>
>While booting at "Bringing up interface eth0" the system fails.
>Does this mean I
>haven't configured my network card?
At least not successfully. Eacatly what do you mean by "the system fails"?
Assuming the system continues initializing after the eth0 problem (whatever
it is), see what the output of "ifconfig -a" tells you about whether the
interface is configured. If it isn't, then see what module you are
installing to control the NIC and whether it is configured correctly.
I don't know the GNOME control panel, but based on the usual requirements of
routing, "Network" probably means the network address of the LAN that eth0
is attached to. For example, if eth0 has IP address 192.168.23.42, netmask
255.255.255.0, then the network address is 192.168.23.0 .If you get
addrersses reassigned by DHCP, though, getting this right isn't all that
important -- the DHCP lease will change all the values anyway.
At least for now, focus on the NIC configuration issue. Until you get eth0
working, nothing else you do will even be testable.
>
>Thanks for any help.
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