Hello,

so i have been at this probelm for months on and off. I even went out and bought a new network card for my laptop.

Proiblem:

I have Red Hat Linux 9.0 loaded on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop. i bought the D-Link DFE-690TXD ethernet card for my laptop, mostly because it said it works with Linux. the computer found a driver for it and it does work because the lights come on and i ran the ifconfig , and dmesg | grep eth commands.

So i can't acces the internet because evrytime i try to active eth0 it gives me this error message:

Cannot activate network device eth0

determing IP information for eth0...iptables: no chain/target/match by that name failed

iptables: bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?)

Does anybody have a solution, please. this is so annoying i even created a new firwall (iptable) and it still does not work.

Thank you

Stop iptables and then try it again. This is usually done using a command like /etc/init.d/iptables stop or something to that effect.
You may have to configure iptables in order to get it running again after the eth0 interface is up.

Håkan

Hey,

thanx for the quick reply.

i tried the stoping the iptables but it gave me a new error. now it tells me " determining IP information for etho...failed"

elsething else you got?

I haven't used RedHat in a long time, but I am sure someone else here can assist in setting up a network card in RedHat. I believe it can be done with a graphical (point and click) application?
Googling on the subject turns up lots and lots of pages that might be helpful too.

Håkan

the shell scripts adsl-setup adsl-start and adsl-status from roaringpenguin.com are very good for this sort of thing. You might already have them installed - just run "adsl-setup" as root.

Try this....

Log on as root, get X up and running and with a terminal type :

service stop iptables

Now click on system, network configuration. It should have an entry for eth0 shown. If you're using DHCP (ie IP is automatically assigned by ISP) then make sure 'Use DHCP' is ticked (I'm good at stating the obvious ). If you're lucky enough (!) to have a fixed IP then make sure that you've entered that correctly.
Try running Mozilla (or whatever browser you might be using - Opera is quite good) and go to www.yahoo.com. If it says '"Unknown host" then go back to the terminal and type :

ifconfig

You should see something like :

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet addr:10.0.0.43 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:30053 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33514 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:10826584 (10.3 Mb) TX bytes:3578008 (3.4 Mb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

If you only have the 'lo' section then try :

ifconfig eth0 up

then :

ifconfig

Eth0 should now appear. Try your browser again and then (assuming it works) re-establish your iptables. And, of course, don't forget to log out as root and back in as your normal user .

Best of luck.