Problem with redhat-config-network

Frederic Herman fherman at inferential.com
Sun Apr 11 16:32:49 UTC 2004


Aaron Konstam wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:35:09PM -0700, Rick Lim wrote:
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>>its a 3com isa card and kudzu didn't find it
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>I am concerned with your statment that you deleted all the network
>cards. How did you try to do that? I have never had kudzu not
>recognise a 3com card.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Aaron Konstam
>>Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:58 PM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: Problem with redhat-config-network
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>>On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:31:58PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>>Am Sa, den 10.04.2004 schrieb Rick Lim um 18:13:
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>>>>Hi there,
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>>>>I have just changed network cards and the old network card still seems
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>>to be
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>>>>there
>>>>even though I have deleted all the network card and rebooted, when I try
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>>to
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>>>>assign the new
>>>>network card the old one shows up, but I am able to select the new one
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>>and
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>>>>carry on to the
>>>>confirmation screen, but then is says you have selected (the old card)
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>>for
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>>>>eth0 and I cannot get pass that.
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>>>>Is there some config file that I have to manually edit to get rid of
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>>this
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>>>>old card?
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>>>Delete the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and let it entirely
>>>create a new one by using redhat-config-network. If you are experienced
>>>enough you of course could edit that plain text file by hand too. Then
>>>please keep care to have the MAC address (HHWADDR) of the new card in
>>>the config file, else the new card would not work properly.
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>>I don't know. I have never had the MAC address in a ifcfg-eth0 file.
>> But when I have switched cards and rebooted kudzu should have asked
>> to remove the old card and configure the new card. I assume kudzu was
>> being run on boot. I would check the kudzu config file and see what
>> card it thinks is configured.
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I believe that Kudzu has a problem with this card under Fedora.  I had 
to disable kudzu and reboot to get the card to work properly.  I found 
several discussions about after I Google'd.

Fred





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