RedHat 9.0 no eth0 no ethernet adapter

johnh62 · 09-12-2003, 07:30 PM

hello can anyone help me with redhat 9 i had red hat 8 and to get my ethernet card to load i used to have to put in the grub bootloader pci=bios,irg and all my system would be found miraculasly....lol but on redhat 9 this is not tha case, it can not find my pci devices just like red hat 8 but the code doesn't work
any help please

Mathieu · 09-12-2003, 07:48 PM

To display all PCI devices, type: lspci

Since you are looking for your network card, use the following command:

Code:

dmesg | grep eth[0-9]

johnh62 · 09-12-2003, 08:02 PM

now that i know that what do i do to get the system to load up any drivers it needs to make this puppy try and connect?

Mathieu · 09-12-2003, 08:26 PM

If Linux detected the network card (realtek8029), then the driver is already loaded.

To configure the network card, you can use the GUI tool.
In the Menu, Setting Systems -> Network
Or type: redhat-config-network

johnh62 · 09-12-2003, 09:17 PM

but i did try to configure the network and entered the info...am useing a dlink router so it should detect the new ip right away, but in this case it didn't. ran ifconfig still only get the loopback
tried modprobe on eth0 and on thertl-8029 says it can't locate the module, so not sure where to go from here but still searching. and help you can offer is greatly appreciated.

Mathieu · 09-12-2003, 09:39 PM

Take a look at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
If you are using DHCP, it should have at least the following:

Code:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

johnh62 · 09-12-2003, 09:39 PM

well it just so happened that i had plug &play still in the bios so that is why it didn't find it...disabled that in bios first thing it said was new hardware thanks yall will be checking back, you guys on this forum are awsome thanks for all the great help,