On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Saul Edwards wrote:
> After installing RedHat 6.2 on my new machine, I haven't been able to get
> my eth0 up. I have a cable modem which works with well Windows. I've
> tried two different network cards (NE2K and Netgear FA311), both with updated
> drivers placed in /lib/modules/x.y.z/net/, and I get the same message at
> startup (or ifup eth0, for that matter):
>
> Configuring IP information for eth0...Operation failed.
>
> lsmod shows that the appropriate file is loaded, and modprobe successfully
> finds the card with valid IRQ, etc. Any ideas?
Do ``ifconfig eth0'' and see what happens. If you see anything about the
card, the module loaded fine and you have a network configuration issue.
You can set the configuration manually with ifconfig. See its man page.
(You can also look in /var/log/bootlog and /var/log/messages to see if the
module loaded okay.)
If ``ifconfig eth0'' is successful and you can't figure out the problem,
tell me what kind of network you have and maybe I can help.
If eth0 is supposed to use dhcp with the cable-modem, ISTR having this
problem last time I used Linux for a router. I think I ended up disabling
eth0 configuration on boot and adding ``dhcpcd eth0'' to the end of
/etc/rc.local, which is ugly but works fine.
-Paul
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