Re: "Bringing up interface eth0" [FAILED] problem.

[<karlp ourldsfamily com>]

You don't have a module for your network card. This is kind of a dumb
question because you have to turn it off, but, does kudzu run at boot? In
other words, do you see a message indicating that new hardware is being
looked for?

Another question, which usually is asked about winmodems, but, is your
network card completely plug-n-play? (translation: put it in and watch
windows use it poorly, all other OSes miss it entirely).

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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Paul Swider wrote:

With lsmod, I get

idea-cd 27104 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 27392 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
autofs 11136 1 (autoclean)
ipchains 38944 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 20848 0 (unused)
usbcore 49632 1 [usb-uhci]




karlp ourldsfamily com wrote:

> It appears that the network card isn't loaded. Have you done lsmod as root
> to see what's loaded?  Mine is:
>
> [root frank /root]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ide-cd                 23628   0  (autoclean)
> lockd                  31176   1  (autoclean)
> sunrpc                 52964   1  (autoclean) [lockd]
> tulip                  31992   1  (autoclean)
> pci-scan                2484   0  (autoclean) [tulip]
> agpgart                18600   0  (unused)
> opl3                   11432   0
> cs4232                  2672   0
> ad1848                 16304   0  [cs4232]
> uart401                 6224   0  [cs4232]
> sound                  57496   0  [opl3 cs4232 ad1848 uart401]
> soundcore               2596   6  [sound]
> soundlow                 420   0  [sound]
> usb-uhci               19052   0  (unused)
> usbcore                42088   1  [usb-uhci]
> [root frank /root]#
>
> The network card is the tupid driver above so I know my network card (eth0)
> is loaded during boot. You can also type dmesg as root, piped to more, and
> see what happens during boot, just in case there's an error message
> indicating some hardware problem. That's a useful command to find out why
> PCI cards don't work. You get to see the interrupts and memory locations
> they are using...
>
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> Karl L. Pearson
> Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
> Senior Consulting Database Analyst
> karlp ourldsfamily com
>  My Thoughts on Terrorism In America:
>  http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Paul Swider wrote:
>
> I'm following this eagerly because I have similar problems. But, when I run
> ifup eth0 I get
>
> Delaying eth0 initialization
>
> and if I run ifconfig -a I show no eth0 listing at all. I assume this means
> eth0 is not running but it also appears that it is refusing. Why would this be?
>
> karlp ourldsfamily com wrote:
>
> > I think I said DHCP can come up at boot time, but, if you have a static IP
> > OR DHCP and want to start after boot time, you can just run
> >
> > ifup eth0
> >
> > and that will kick it off (ifdown eth0 to drop it).
> >
> > --
> > Karl L. Pearson
> > Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
> > Senior Consulting Database Analyst
> > karlp ourldsfamily com
> >  My Thoughts on Terrorism In America:
> >  http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml
> >
> > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jim Ruxton wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Karl
> > > You need to set eth0 to not start at bootup if you aren't using it.
> > What is the best way to do this?
> > >In order
> > > for eth0 to start, it has to have a static IP or be able to configure
> > itself
> > > using DHCP, otherwise it will fail every time. If you will be connecting
> > to
> > > a network using eth0, assign a static IP or give it a DHCP server that it
> > > can find during boot.
> > And if I want to log on to a DHCP server later but not at boot how do I
> > configure this.
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
> > >
> > > At least that's how I understand things.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Karl L. Pearson
> > > Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
> > > Senior Consulting Database Analyst
> > > karlp ourldsfamily com
> > >  My Thoughts on Terrorism In America:
> > >  http://www.ourldsfamily.com/wtc.shtml
> > >
> > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Jim Ruxton wrote:
> > >
> > > I hope someone can help me . Yes I'm a newbie but working at getting to
> > > know Linux. I just recently installed RH7.2 on my laptop. It has an
> > > internal ethernet port. Since I installed RH7.2 (dual booting with XP)
> > > I've been getting the nuisance :
> > > "Bringing up interface eth0" can't locate IP address [FAILED]
> > > I'm not sure why it's looking for an IP address on bootup . I am not
> > > always connected to a network. eth0 works fine when I start pppoe for my
> > > adsl connection. It appeared to take longer and longer every time I
> > > booted for the [FAILED] message to come back. Now it just hangs before
> > > the [FAILED] message appears. I can only boot in interactive mode and
> > > say no to starting eth0 . It still starts fine when I run a start-pppoe
> > > script.
> > > Here is my ifcfg-eth0 script. I'd really appreciate any help to get this
> > > fixed. Thanks!
> > >
> > > DEVICE=eth0
> > > ONBOOT=yes   # (I tried saying no but it didn't make a difference)
> > > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> > > TYPE=Ethernet
> > > USERCTL=no
> > > PEERDNS=no
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > >
> > >
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