Networking is notworking

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 10:06, Brian Kendig wrote:
> I'm trying Fedora Core 2 on my laptop, but it's not able to use either 
> of my network interfaces which both worked fine under SuSE 9.0.
> 
> The laptop is a Dell Latitude D266XT, connected to its minidock.  The 
> dock has an Ethernet connector based on a 3c905 chip.  FC2 properly 
> senses this interface and assigns eth0 to it.  But when I try to 
> activate it through the Network Configuration control panel, it says 
> "Determining IP information for eth0..." then about a minute later it 
> says "failed."  /var/log/messages is very chatty during that minute 
> it's working; it starts out by logging "dhclient: sit0: unknown 
> hardware address type 776" often, as well as things like "eth0: 
> transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000" and eth0: Transmit error, 
> Tx status register 90."  It continues to log errors to the messages log 
> every few seconds even after it gives up.
> 
> The laptop also has a 3Com Megahertz 10/100 PCMCIA card in it, which 
> FC2 also detects and assigns eth1 to.  When I try to activate it, 
> Network Configuration says "3c574_cs device eth1 does not seem to be 
> present, delaying initialization."  I don't understand how FC2 could 
> autodetect a card then say it's not present?  When I try to activate 
> eth1, /var/log/messages says nothing about it.

Not sure about the docking station.  But the problem you are seeing with
the pcmcia card I believe is the same thing I had a problem with.  You
need to change the order that pcmcia services is started in the rc5.d
directory.  Not sure why but they try to start network services before
the pcmcia services are started.  Of course you are out of luck if your
network adapter is on the pcmcia bus.  :(

The other thing I noticed is that I have to pull the pcmcia card and
reinsert it for the system to fully recognize it.  Have not tracked this
one down yet.  


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Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>