[wplug] network card woes

Vanco, Don don.vanco at agilysys.com
Mon Oct 4 15:49:38 EDT 2004


what distro?  Have you looked at module information to insure that the
correct driver alias is in place for your NIC (or at least not the
incorrect one)?  Is this a new install or did this just happen (i.e..
what precipitated this issue?)
Don

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of John Harrold
>Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 3:51 PM
>To: western PA LUG
>Subject: [wplug] network card woes
>
>
>When I try to bring up the network I get the following in messages:
>
></messages>
>kernel: 88 3f 03 05 00 40 ed ...
>kernel: de 27 0b cd 4f 56 2a ...
>kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
>kernel: 88 3f 03 05 00 40 ed 
>kernel: 41 e4 e3 66 57 80 7f ...
>kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 0233a140(lo)
>network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
>kernel: 88 3f 03 05 00 40 ed ...
>kernel: de 27 0b cd 4f 56 2a ...
>kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
>kernel: 88 3f 03 05 00 40 ed ...
>kernel: 41 e4 e3 66 57 80 7f ...
>ifup: 
>ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
>dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
>dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
>dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
>dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
>dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
>dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
>dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
>dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
>ifup:  failed.
>network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
></messages>
>
>I'm using dhcp above, but I get similar problems when try to set the ip
>address. The network card worked fine when I installed the os 
>(fedora core
>3 test), but the nic wont come up for the life of me after the install.
>
>At first I thought maybe the nic was bad, so I swapped it out. 
>I still have
>the same problems. When I looked for the 'sit0' line above in google it
>returns a lot of people having trouble with wireless nics. The nic I'm
>using is not wireless --- I don't know if that matters, but 
>its somethin I
>noticed. 
>
>Can anyone offer any information on this one?
>
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