Hi guys. Just so you know, I'm pretty new to linux. I've been learning Solaris in school since August, but I just installed Red Hat Linux 9.0 on my home computer Saturday, so please be a little patient with my ignorance
. My problem is that I'm trying to be able to use my SBC Yahoo! DSL on linux, but there's a problem with either eth0, or my NIC card might not be compatible.
I really don't even know where to start when it comes to setting up DSL for linux, but first off, there's this problem:
Now, when I start up linux, when it's going through the boot up process everything goes ok until it get's to:
Bringing up eth0 interface (or something like that) it fails.
However, I'm pretty sure linux knows I have a NIC card, and what brand it is too. That tells me that there's nothing wrong with my netcard, as far as it being there is concerned, and I'm pretty sure it's compatible (it was in the list of available stuff during the installation).
Once I've gotten into linux, and I go to the system tools->network the card is there, but it's inactive. By default, the fields for the setup/config were blank save for the hostname which was localhost.localdomain. I filled in the DNS primary and secondary with the info I got from DNS primary and secondary from the connection dialog box properties while in windows (respectively).
Once I did that, I tried to activate it again and it failed determining the IP address once again.
I've looked into some threads and saw some people were able to fix this problem by editing the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file to:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
and I did that (while making a backup of the original in case this didn't work). However this didn't fix anything, and it still fails to bring up the eth0 interfaces during bootup, and thus, still won't activate. Running /sbin/ifup eth0 produces no output (success right?), but running /sbin/ifconfig eth0 <any parameter> complains about something on eth0 (inactive or some such).
Like I said, I'm new to linux (but love it to death already), and have almost no idea on where to get started fixing this problem. If you need more info than what I've given, I'd be happy to switch to linux, do some digging, log it in a file, and come back and post it all. Thanks!