Network configuration probelms (still)

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 22.08.2004 schrieb Kellie Blackwell um 22:02:

> Ever since I upgraded my RH7.3 box to Fedora Core 2, I have not been able to use my network card.
> It seems something in my setup thinks I want IPv6 instead of IPv4. During the boot process, I get a
> message saying that eth0 is started but when I do an 'ifconfig -a ', all I have is a sit0 device and no eth0.
> 
> My ethernet card is a Netgear FA311 and the kernel release is 2.6.5-1.358

> The only thing that look at all suspect to me are the mention of the 2.4.x kernel driver and the IPv6 over
> IPv4 tunneling driver.
> Does this mean that someting in the kernel is set to use only IPv6?

No. I doubt IPv6 has a bad side effect in your situation.

> If I boot from the CD in rescue mode and answer Yes when asked if I want to start the network, eth0 is
> configured but when I boot normally I always get sit0. I have tried setting NETWORKING_IPV6=NO in
> /etc/sysconfig/network and even tried renaming all the IPV6 related files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
> to no avail.

Please post following output:

cat /proc/interrupts

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

> Steve

Alexander


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