Re: Weird Network Card problems - 2

[Ajit Warrier <unixajit yahoo com>]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for that tip about the firewall. But it did not
work.

I booted to the Windows 98 partition and got IP
information through DHCP and then entered this info
into linux when I booted into it (static of course,
other complications later!)

Still does not ping anything else other than itself.

Any other things I could try? - I am sure I am missing
something obvious.

Thanks,

Ajit


--- Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:05:37AM -0800, Ajit
> Warrier wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > Looks like I posted my email at a bad time (31st
> Dec
> > when the world does not want to think of
> problems!).
> > So I am posting it again. Hopefully I will get
> some
> > help this time around. Sorry for the re-posting.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Perhaps your firewalling is set to "high".  Run your
> firewall
> configuration tool and, if your network is isolated
> from the Internet
> by a firewall, turn firewalling off.  Note: the
> config tool does NOT
> read your current configuration.  It always comes up
> ready to set it
> to "high".
> 
> > 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),
> 
> Both "dmesg" and /var/log/messages contain the boot
> information.  To
> view the latter, bring it up with "less", go to the
> end of file, and
> search backward for "restart", to wit:
> 
>  less /var/log/messages
>  # and use these keystrokes: G?restart<Enter_key>
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Strange as it may seem, that's normal.  Networking
> is started before
> pcmcia.
> 
> > Still, when I do ifconfig, eth0 shows up and the
> same
> > problem remains - can ping itself but not other
> > internal IPs.
> > 
> > Please help!
> > 
> > Ajit
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems,
> Inc.
> robertmcclure earthlink net 
> http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
> Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without
> rebooting.
> 
> 
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