Hi there,
I have installed Fedora Core 1 on both my desktop machine and laptop machine and upon booting the eth0 will not work.
Due to my temory dependence on Windows (yuck) I'm having to run it within VMware 4, my windows is XP pro on my desktop and home on the laptop yet have the same problem (note: also same problem under VMware 3.5).

When it comes to initalizing eth0 it comes up with this:

Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... failed: no link present. Check cable?
[failed]

My network works great outside of VMware on both machines.

any sugestions?

it also fails the console mouse services and smartd, but im not too concerned about these just yet.

Could you please copy the result of
ifconfig

Just type ifconfig at the console and copy and paste the output here.

OK here it is:

[root@VM-Athlon root]# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:244.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX oackets:5367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX oackets:5367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4303162 (4.1 Mb) TX bytes:4303162 (4.1 Mb)

[root@VM-Athlon root]# uname -a
Linux VM-Athlon 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:31:21 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux


I did the uname incase you needed the information.

thanks

As you can see you have not provided the ip for eth0.

Just type
ifconfig eth0 ipaddress

That should get you working.

I gave up and wiped my laptop and put Fedora Core 2 on it works great.

I forgot to plug in the network cable before booting though and had to do ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.5 to get network up. but it wouldnt resolve URLs, how do I get the to work without rebooting?

You can try two things,

1. service network restart
This restart the network services and bring up eth0 if bring up at boot is enabled
2. ifconfig eth0 up
This is brings up eth0

Plus tell me, do you also have some subnet mask or something which you need to provide. I mean do a ifconfig and check all the values if they are fine.

And, does eth0 connect to a local network or to a cable network?

I have a router connected to my cable network and basically all my machines are in the 192.168.0.x ranges and I usually use the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 dunno if that helps.

I ended up rebooting anyway, its all working, I'm just curious incase I have to use the internet again and have forgot to plug the cable in

Ok good. So then(incase you forget to pluging the cable) you can do
service network restart
or
ifconfig eth0 up

Both will work fine.

well, ifconfig eth0 up and also service network restart works, but how do I bring up the DNS? still doesn't seem to resolve names.

did you check out the router firmware? You have to do
http://192.168.XX.XX in the browser, which is the address of the router. Therein you need to provide the DNS which is the same as your default gateway.

Does this help or did I not understand your question?

My settings in my router are set ok
its set has DHCP server and all works great, linux picks up the DNS server if I have the cable in during boot, but if i dont have the cable in during boot and initialize it after with the cable in then it doesnt resolve DNS or ask the router for DNS even.

I think its the way I'm wording it unfortunaly

thanks for the help eitherway I really apreciate it.

From my experience, I've never seen this. Sorry dude, can't help you fix this issue

Anyways, it's not much of a bug, so...

Cheers.

no worries, ill just reboot it whenever I come across it again

thanks for the sugestions, they may not have solved it but they are usefull all the same

Cheers

ratgod,

Did you give up on trying to get Red Hat 9 to work? I have been running into the same problems. I have a virtual machine with 7.3 working just fine. For some reason RH9 doesn't seem to work.

Has anyone been able to get RH9 to work when using VMware?