Re: Ethernet interface not working in 8.0

[David McGlone <dmcglone edificationweb com>]

On Sunday 01 December 2002 09:18 pm, Burnie West wrote:
> This appears to be a more common problem than I thought.  My
> trouble, or so I thought, was due to the fact that I was going
> through a NetGear MR314 router which Redhat does not have in
> their list of supported hardware.  However, today I hooked up
> directly to my PacBell DSL machine (bypassing the router),
> deleted and re-added the eth0 connection using internet-druid,
> and still could not connect.  I didn't spend much time on this,
> however, because that shut off all the other users on my LAN.
>
> I have reviewed in some detail (considering my lack of LINUX
> experience) all the relevant files I could find searching for
> evidence of discrepancy, and found none.  One thing did puzzle
> me, though.  In the file /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info the field
> CLASSID="Linux 2.4.18-14 i686" when I was on Linux 7.3, and
> now on 8.0 it is CLASSID="Linux 2.4.18-3 i686".  This would
> seem to be a kernel revision level; my latest up2date reference
> is kernel-2.4.18-17.x.i686.rpm -- apparently from a 7.3 upgrade.
> Does this make sense?  Or do I have some kernel clashing?
>
> The output of ifconfig also appears to me to be consistent, as
> well as the NetGear MR314 DHCP table.
>
> Here are the files I reviewed -- perhaps someone out there might
> be able to suggest others to think about.
>
> /etc/dhcpc/dhcpc-eth0.info
> /etc/dhcpc/dhcpc-eth0.cache (three strings)
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
> During the boot, occasionally the eth0 launch exhibits FAILED and
> (rarely) it asserts "infinite lease time expired", but usually it
> simply says "OK".

Hi Bernie, 

I had a similiar problem. Here is how I fixed my problem. I am still using RH 
7.3 so I don't know if this may work in 8.0 but it's worth a shot.

first use the internet configuration wizard to delete your old connection you 
created, then rename the folder dhcpc in /etc to dhcpc.bak. 

After this I rebooted the system, but I don't think you really need to, but I 
did just to make sure.

Then start your internet configuration wizard again and create the connection 
again. If your DSL uses dhcp then just select that option and make sure the 
option to start on boot is enabled. 

Now you should be able to make a connection without any problems. Maybe if you 
opt to, you could reboot to see if things work on boot also.

Hope this helps,
-- 
David M.
Edification Web Solutions
http://www.edificationweb.com