On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 10:15 am, greg wrote:
> Anyway, I will try to answer the questions that you all asked in one
> email, so that it is all in one place, and also give a run-down on what
> my system is, and what I have done.
>
It does help to have as much information as possible in one place. Well done.
> First, the system is a gigabyte ga-83r533 motherboard, with a p4 chip.
> The network card is a realtek 8139 card. My router is a Alcatel Speed
> Touch PRO router, obviously running through the nic card (to those who
> have directed me to the usb drivers and text on usb modem, I don't think
> this is relevant in my case??) The router has all details for
> connection to the internet in it's internal software. If interested,
> here is what is in the modems internal software:
> PPP (VPI 8, VCI 35) ipa
> ipa 150.101.208.30 255.255.0.0
> eth0 10.0.0.138 255.0.0.0
> loop 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
> auto DHCP
> domain name :lan
> hostname: user 10.0.0.1
>
>
> When installing Mandrake, I have selected (when setting up net/internet)
> the ethernet option, and selected bootp/dhcp instead of entering any
> details. This is how Red Hat is configured (ethernet connection/dhcp)
> and works no probs. After this, booting into MK9, internet does not
> work. When it is booting, the detection of eth0 fails. Running
> ifconfig in MK9, shows up only the "lo" details, and eth0 is not
> running. As a result, obviously no connection. Does not matter how
> many different ways I configure the connection through the wizard, it
> still does not work, even when I select ADSL, and choose DHCP.....
> If I run ifup eth0, it fails. When I run 'ifconfig eth0 -pointopoint
> 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0', it brings eth0 up, but still does no good,
> and when I run the internet wizard, if knocks eth0 out, and puts it down
> again. Just one more note, this last time of installing mandrake, I
> installed only the minimum (980mb something isntall, for a basic
> internet system, with gnome and kde) just incase something else being
> installed was interferring with the device.
>
> I have no firewall installed.
>
> When I bring up ifconfig in RH8, these are the addresses that come up:
> eth0
> inet addr :10.0.0.1 Bcast 10.255.255.255 Mask 255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> lo
> inet addr : 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
>
To me that suggests that RH is using 10.0.0.1 as gateway. If I'm wrong,
please someone correct me.
> Please note with the above, that when running ifconfig eth0 -pointopoint
> 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 in mandrake, the 'UP BROADCAST RUNNING'
> section has a word 'NOTRAILERS' in it. Does this have a critical part
> to play?? This is one difference between the RH8 and MK9 ifconfig
> display.
>
>
> Anne,
> as far as I know, the eth0's address is automatically assigned? (dhcp)
> and being the only device on the network in redhat, it gets an address
> of 10.0.0.1. The router/modems address is 10.0.0.138. I use this
> address (when eth0 is working) in my browser to get into the
> configuration of the router. This brings up the routers menu (which is
> web site design based) to configure everything.
Your card's address is automatically assigned by the router, if that is the
dhcp server. Make sure you have pointed your setup to the correct server.
My router is an SMC which uses a web site design, and sound similar to yours.
I can't even remember its external address, but it assigns itself 192.168.0.1
as the internal address. As far as I know it is the norm for
your.local.domain.1 to be used for this purpose. This would also tie in with
what I think RH is telling you.
> With regard to the
> alcatel packages, I found it, but I specifically states it is to do with
> usb alcatel modems, so I don't think I need it.
That sounds reasonable.
> You say I should be
> configuring it with a local lan number. How and where should I do
> this. Why should it not recognise the modems address of 10.0.0.138?
Look - I'm not saying you couldn't be right - it just isn't usual. :)
> I seriously think that something is wrong with the nic, not anything
> else. The nic works, as is proven in other o/s's, but the driver or
> something in MK9 may not be working, or the device configured wrongly.
> How do I test the connection/nic??
>
Not sure on this - someone else will know. Have you tried ifconfig? Here's
the output on mine:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:E2:01:5B:EF
inet addr:192.168.0.30 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:88606 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:69955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:94431336 (90.0 Mb) TX bytes:6373470 (6.0 Mb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x8000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1221216 (1.1 Mb) TX bytes:1221216 (1.1 Mb)
You should see something similar.
I'm going to be away for a few days, so you may well have solved it before I'm
back - good luck! If you haven't solved it by then we could compare your
setup and mine in detail if you wish - it sounds very similar. Mail me
off-list if you wish, towards the weekend. I'm back Friday afternoon.
At least now you have a working system it's no longer so urgent or
frustrating.
Anne
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