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I am having trouble with Linux RedHat 7.1 and my 3com 3c905-TX NIC card.  I
am using DHCP to recognize the card and chose NO firewall options at
installation.  This card was once visible with RedHat 7.0.

The main difference in installation was the firewall options in 7.1.
However, I chose no firewall.  (I connect to the network through a proxy
server.)

I can see the driver in my /etc/modules.conf file..........

alias eth0 3c59x

I saw the module when I ran /sbin/lsmod

3c59x 0 (auto-clean)

Is there any additional troubleshooting I could go through?

any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
John Curley

if not try

# ifconfig eth0 up

any errors when booting up?

try "ifconfig" and the RedHat network start scripts (should be in
/etc/init.d/*) to configure it. Should be usable afterwards...

Stefan :)

Then I ran ifconfig eth0 up.  Which did not produce any errors.

Then when I ran ifconfig, it did show eth0.

However, when I tried to ping some other server, it said that I was
attempting to ping FROM address 0.0.0.0.

I think this is because I need to use DHCP to obtain a dynamic address.

Do you know how to bring up eth0 with dhcp?

Thanks,
John

Hi!,

Quote:> When I ran ifconfig (with no arguments), eth0 did not show up.
> Then I ran ifconfig eth0 up.  Which did not produce any errors.
> Then when I ran ifconfig, it did show eth0.

> However, when I tried to ping some other server, it said that I was
> attempting to ping FROM address 0.0.0.0.

> I think this is because I need to use DHCP to obtain a dynamic address.
> Do you know how to bring up eth0 with dhcp?

BOOTPROTO=bootp or BOOTPROTO=dhcp

See ya

Dean Thompson

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