FC4 doesn't see NIC Cards

[Dave Harman]

Thanks for your reply, Jon

First, I enter ifconfig -a and I see a normal output. Everything looks 
OK except
there are no input or output bytes.

When installing , I chose the "no firewall"  option, and I didn't start 
any firewall.

IP addresses are static which I entered as part of the installation process.
Once again, the correct IP address appears in the ifconfig output.

Dave Harman

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>>Dave,
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>>	Just because your drivers load and the OS starts the networking
>>service does not mean your network is configured properly.  What does the
>>"ifconfig" command output for you?   As Oliver noted, you might not be
>>receiving an IP address from your DCHP server or your firewall is blocking
>>you.
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>>	Jon
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
>>On Behalf Of Dave Harman
>>Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:33 AM
>>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: FC4 doesn't see NIC Cards
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>>  I installed FC4 on a Dell Dimension 2400
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>>This machine has 2 NIC cards - one for local network and
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>>one for Internet
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>>For some reason, FC cannot see the NIC cards.
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>>When I examine DMESG, FC4 seems to find each card, identify the
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>>driver, the MAC address of each card, and the IRQ to be used
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>>Also the startup screen shows eth0 and eth1 starting with the green "OK"
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>>But the route commands attempting to use dev eth0 or dev eth1
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>>return "no such device" as an error message and when I try to
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>>ping localhost or a static IP I get the message "network is unreachable"
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>>The cables are plugged into the same hubs that other servers successfully
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>>use.
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>>Does anyone have an idea where I can look for solution?
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>>And if I may be permitted a small rant, I think FC in general is a poor,
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>>poor second to the regular releases we used to get from Red Hat. This is the
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>>second time I've installed FC4 on this machine. The first time, the screen
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>>would blink off for no reason, and BIND wouldn't see the local network.
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>>Now, after the 2^nd installation, the screen behaves itself, but I have 
>>problems with
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>>the network cards.
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>>This stuff is supposed to run - like do useful things? - not be a 
>>project which goes
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>>on and on trying to get it to work. For me, the Fedora Project has "we 
>>don't care" written
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>>all over it.
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>>End of Rant.
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>>Thanks
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>>Dave Harman
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