On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I had posted a message earlier, but I forgot to place a Subject. Only one
> person answered me, but it wasn't enough to get things going. Here's my
> problem...
>
> I am subscribed with Videotron (Montreal, Quebec). I installed Linux on its
> own HD, I swap this one and another with Win95. When doing this, I enter the
> Bios, change HD detection and set PnP OS to no (I installed Linux this way).
>
> During installation, I was prompted if I wanted to install networking. I
> answered YES, specified my NIC as an NE2000 compatible (it's an SMC 1660
> ISA), specified 0x340 for the io and 9 for the IRQ. At boot, it finds eth0
> information with this message...
>
> "NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: 00 e0 29 35 f6 a8
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x340, using IRQ 9"
>
> ...but I then get a ...
>
> "Determining IP information for eth0... Operation Failed"
WHat program is giving this error message, what do you need to do, do
you have s static IP address or do you need to get an dynamisch IP#
from your provider. ??
If its a case of getting a dynamisch IP then use DHCP-2.0 obtanable
at;
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/
Its easy to compile and install once installed all one needs to do to
get it to work is _normaly_ type dhclient eth0
There should be no need to configure and files, there is a file
placed into /etc called dhclient-script which should work on a normal
machine.
You did not say ehat type of system you have but Redhat for example
has a ew programs which will configure the interface for you and
start dhcp at bootime so your eth0 gets its ip number.
linuxconf is possably a likly candiadte for this issue used ina
console or something like netcfg under X, you can even startX as root
and use the control pannel to configure the whole interface as well.
I did not have much information to go on fir a decent answer only
"Determining IP information for eth0... Operation Failed"
Its difficult to give exacht answers, i hope this helps.
> I've tried everything I could find to set up the network, but nothing does
> it. I've looked through
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html
> for anything that may help me, but I am missing something. And I thought NT
> Networking was a pain...
> If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it soo much. If I am missing some info
> that someone needs to decipher this, let me know and I'll post it. Thanks
> in advance,
>
> Rendus
>
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