Hi list,
I am facing a weird problem with my Network Card (Xircom CBE-10/100). I have installed RH80 on an IBM Thinkpad 600 laptop. During bootup, the card is not detected - only lo is started. However, after booting, when I do dmesg, I get to see this message as part of the output -
eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0xc4865000, EEPROM not present, 00:4c:69:6e:75:79, IRQ 11.
Does this mean that the card has now been detected after some other component has been loaded as part of the boot process?
However, if I now do ifconfig I only get to see lo. ifconfig -a shows eth0 too. So I then did - ifup eth0 and the system came back with the message
/sbin/ifup: configuration for eth0 not found.
Usage: ifup <device name>
Assuming that I need to configure the card, I opened System Settings > Network from the Gnome menu. eth0 does NOT show up in the list. SO I added it manually as an Ethernet connection "DEC 21*40 and clones" type. I set the IP address statically (one complication at a time, right?).
The status of eth0 in the Network tool now shows eth0 as inactive. When I press activate, it gets activated. Now ifconfig shows eth0 as well with the statically assigned IP configuration.
This is where the problem starts (all the rest was just a background so that you all know how I got here). I can ping the IP address on eth0 but I cannot ping any other IP on the network. The card is working fine when I boot into the Windows 98 partition so the cable and card are fine. The net mask is correct for my network.
Where can the problem be? Why can I not ping the internal network?
So anyway, being an MS junkie, I rebooted my system. In the start up messages (BTW, is there a way I can see the startup messages in a file? they scroll by too fast), I see something like this when it tries to bring eth0 up (lo comes up fine) -
tulip device does not seem to be present, delaying...
Still, when I do ifconfig, eth0 shows up and the same problem remains - can ping itself but not other internal IPs.
Please help!
Ajit