Red Hat Cant See Ethernet why?
 

Good day,

I just installed RH9 on a little HP Pavillion. This computer fomerly ran connected to the internet through its ethernet card built into the motherboard. I have it connected to my gateway in my house which is a DSL that feeds into a Linksys NAT Router and then out to a hub to a portion of my home. I have verified that the hub and the cable both work properly.

Initially when Red Hat installed I didnt get any kind of prompting for Network connection which concerned me. Sure enough, even though the light is green on the card when I hook it to the hub, RedHat apparently recognizes that there is a card somehow, because when I go into the GNOME tools under network settings, the eth0 is there, but it is inactive and has no properties set whatsoever.

Following another post here, I got to a prompt and ran ifconfig with the following results:

Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 16436 Metric: 1
RX Packets: 5357 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 frames:0
TX Packets: 5357 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 frames: 0
collisions:0 txqueue len:0
RX Bytes: 366115 (357.5k) TX Bytes: 366115 (357.5K)

I went to cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and there is no ifcfg-eth0.

Is there something I can do manually to get RH to see the ethernet connection?
My ip gateway is 192.168.248.30, Subnet is 255.255.255.0
Primary DNS: 207.69.188.185
Secondary DNS: 207.69.188.186

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.
Korky Kathman

You are almost there. Use the same network configuration druid - Gnome network settings - and edit (or verify) your eth0 configuration. Then activate the interface by clicking on the appropriate checkbox, i.e. 'Activate' This has to be either a static IP address, or one supplied by your DHCP server. You will also enter your Gateway and DNS addresses as you edit the interface.

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