>>>>>> "aam" == Abdullah Al-Molah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> aam> Am having problem getting my linux box with RedHat version 5.0
> aam> to work, I finally got my ethernet card to get configured after
> aam> I patched and recompiled kernel 2.0.33!, my NIC is 3com
> aam> 3c905B-TX.
>
> aam> In Windows 95 OSR2, under Network, configured the TCP/IP driver
> aam> to obtain an IP automatically and I checked the DHCP option,
> aam> and in addition I supplied two DNS IP addresses!.
>
> aam> now in Linux am all out of ideas, since I have already put the
> aam> same options, I am using with windows95, in X windows, I
> aam> clicked on the network tab, entered the same host and domain
> aam> names, both DNS IPs, and I created an interface called "eth0",
> aam> and I configured it so it will start at boot, and enabled the
> aam> DHCP option, but now it will take long time at boot time when
> aam> it shows DHCP, but after a while, it will say failed!
>
>We can't tell from this if the card is working or not. When the
>system has booted, has the card been recognised? What does "ifconfig
>-a" produce? What does "lsmod" produce? What is in
>/proc/interrupts, and in /etc/conf.modules? And when DHCP fails,
>what *exactly* does it say?
>
>
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Thanks James,
Here is the info I got :
at the time of boot I will get the following message:
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eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400, ***INVALID CHECKSUM 0033***
00:10:4b:6c:e4:20, IRQ 11
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, 10baseT interface.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
3c59x.c:v0.47H 12/4/97 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
IP-Config: Incomplete network configuration information.
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and when I ran ifconfig -a I got the following :
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[root@aal-molah /root]# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:1260 dropped:18 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:6C:E4:20
inet addr:206.196.151.12 Bcast:206.196.151.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
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and when issued the command lsmod I got the following :
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[root@aal-molah /root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
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the file /proc/interrupts shows the following:
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CPU0
0: 27945 XT-PIC timer
1: 736 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 0 XT-PIC soundblaster
10: 468 XT-PIC aha152x
11: 23 XT-PIC 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx
12: 3183 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 2 XT-PIC fpu
14: 1922 XT-PIC ide0
15: 10 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
IPI: 0
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the file /etc/conf.modules shows nothing!
and the only DHCP message at boot time says the following:
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Using DHCP for eth0 ... failed
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ok I hope that I game you all the information you need to find out what is going on, thanks in advance.
Sincerely Yours,
Abdullah Al-Molah
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