Determining IP information for eth0

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:43, Brian Quaresma wrote:
> I get a message Determining IP information for eth0... failed when i
> try to activate my eth0 card. I am on a DSL line behind a Linksys
> router. My NIC is a 3Com 3c900 Combo
> It woudl appear that I am not getting DHCP information from the
> router, but I am not sure how to remedy this. 
> Two other computers behind the router are working fine, but neither is
> running Linux
>  
> Any help would be greatly appreciated

First thing to do is make sure you have a good network connection.  Do
you have link indication on the router for the linux box?  (Should have
a green led showing)

Also verify that you have the ethernet card configured correctly for
DHCP.  Check your log files for errors as well.  

ifconfig -a  

Information from the above command would help as well.

Also you may want to assign a static IP address just to make sure the
network is working.  Make sure you set the IP address, subnet mask, and
default gateway as well as specifying your ISPs DNS servers in the
/etc/resolv.conf file.  

That will get your system on the network and verify that your hardware
will work.  

Then you can switch to DHCP if you want and sort out what is happening
at that point.

But my initial guess is that you do not have link.  This could be caused
by wrong speed or duplex, bad cable, bad ethernet card, bad port on the
router, wrong configuration on the ethernet card.

You may also want to make sure you have DHCP setup on the router
correctly.  Since you have other systems working the most likely problem
is that you don't have enough IP addresses allocated for DCHP.  Probably
not the case but something to look for.

Hope that helps or gives you a place to start looking.

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