Network Not Working in Linux ; Works in Windows Why ?

Stephen Carville stephen at totalflood.com
Mon May 9 17:28:54 UTC 2005


Two things:

what does ethtool say?

# ethtool eth0

Where are you geting your IP addresses?  "XX" and "YY" are not legitimate 
octets.

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Robert Williams wrote:

> Have you enabled the NIC cards and/or do you have the correct drivers loaded
> for Linux to use those NIC cards?
>
>
> Robert Williams
> Programmer / Web Developer / Network Administrator
> Covenant Data Systems, Inc.
> http://www.covenantdata.com
> rwilliams at covenantdata.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of John Smith
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 8:38 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Network Not Working in Linux ; Works in Windows Why ?
>
> Hi,
> I have just installed RedHat  in my system (Dual OS : Windows and
> Linux)
> I can ping any system on the network under windows.
>
>
> But, when i ping any system on the network under Linux I get,
> Undestination Unreachable error.
>
>
> I have Inter Pro 100 Ethernet card on my system.
>
>
> The Static IP is same for Windows and Linux.
>
>
> When i do ifconfig ; i am getting ip, netmask everything is ok. except
> Tx Packets and Rx Packets which are 0.
>
>
> I tried
>
>
> cardctl ident
>
>
> I got an message saying no devices in /proc/devices.
>
>
> I dont know what is the problem.
>
>
> I checked The driver is e100 it is loaded. but still network is not
> working.
>
>
> Please advice.
>
>
> Would appreciate if you could tell me what (steps) i should do inorder
> to correct my problem.
>
>
> List Of Commands and thier results:
>
> john.maxi... at gmail.com   May 6, 6:32 pm     show options
>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.networking
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> Date: 6 May 2005 06:02:09 -0700
> Local: Fri,May 6 2005 6:32 pm
> Subject: Re: Destination Unreachanble: Fedora Core 2 : Network Does not
> work.
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>
> Hi,
>
>
> I am giving the outputs of the following command for assitance.
>
>
> Name Network Card: Inter Pro 100
> Nature Of Problem: Network Works while in Windows (i am able to ping to
> any machine). But, in Linux it does Not Work, unable to ping to any
> machine on network.
> get Errror: Destination Host Unrechable.
>
>
> Details Of Commands Executed:
> ----------------------------------------------
> Command: cardctl ident
>
>
> no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Command: ifconfig -a
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:E2:49:1A:A9
>          inet addr:XX.YY.13.88  Bcast:192.168.13.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>          inet6 addr: fe80::200:e2ff:fe49:1aa9/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>          RX packets:2389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:2389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:2724120 (2.5 Mb)  TX bytes:2724120 (2.5 Mb)
>
>
> sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
>          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Command: /sbin/iptables -L
>
>
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Command: /sbin/route -n
>
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> XX.YY.13.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> eth0
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
> lo
> 0.0.0.0         XX.YY.13.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
> eth0
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Command: cat /etc/sysconfig/network
>
>
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=ShriRama
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Command: cat /etc/sysconfig/network
>
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=XX.YY.13.88
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> GATEWAY=XX.YY.13.1
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Command: cat /etc/resolv.conf
>
>
> nameserver XX.YY.10.1
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Command : /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> iptable_filter          2048  0
> ip_tables              13440  1 iptable_filter
> parport_pc             19392  1
> lp                      8236  0
> parport                29640  2 parport_pc,lp
> autofs4                10624  0
> sunrpc                101064  1
> e100                   25348  0
> mii                     3584  1 e100
> floppy                 47440  0
> sg                     27552  0
> scsi_mod               91344  1 sg
> microcode               4768  0
> dm_mod                 33184  0
> joydev                  6976  0
> uhci_hcd               23708  0
> button                  4504  0
> battery                 6924  0
> asus_acpi               8472  0
> ac                      3340  0
> ipv6                  184288  8
> ext3                  102376  3
> jbd                    40216  1 ext3
>
>
> The Output of lspci corresponding to my adapter is
> 01:08:0 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corp
> 82801 BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
>
>
> Hope this helps to identify my problem.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>




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