IP Configuration (actually, 3com prob)

[Ben Guevremont]

Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote:
>  Determining IP information for eth1...failed; no link present. Check
cable?

I've had that problem before when using the DHCP client. My 3C905B card
reported erroneously that the link was down. The work around to this problem
is to edit the following files. If only one exist, make to change to that
file only:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[n]
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth[n]

In both cases, [n] is the number of the Ethernet adapter (i.e. eth0)

Add the following text at the top of each each files:

check_link_down ()  {
return 1;
}

Save and bring the interface back up (ifup eth[n]). This did the trick for
me; hope it does the same for you.

Ben Guevremont