I've got an old AMD 233 system with 48Mb RAM that I'm trying to set up as a web/ftp server. I got Apache and WU-FTP set up and working but for some reason the network interface isn't working. I can test the servers with loopback but not through my home network. The card on the system has the realtek8139 chip in it, and redhat6.2 came with support for it. I configured it to use DHCP because of my Dlink 4-port router (also acts as a simple dhcp server), but it's like the computer isn't even connected to the network. I used LinuxConfig and tried to manually set the IP address (192.168.0.103) but that didn't work either. The network works fine when i have redhat7.3 installed but the it runs too slow on my old system. Could it be because RH7.x uses kernel 2.4.x and RH6.x used kernel 2.2.x? This is really bugging me cause I thought redhat would be easy to set up as a server . Appreciate the help.



Oh yeah when I look at Network Configuration, it says that eth0 is activated, but it sure doesn't seem like it!

My guess is that the kernel module isn't loaded. What output does lsmod give?

regards
codecruncher

wow thanks, that seems to be the culprit. i did lsmod and here's what it showed:
"rtl8139 12388 0 <autoclean> unused"

Any suggestions on how to enable the module?
Obviously I'm a newb. sorry

Well, unused means, that the module is there and that as soon as it is needed, the kernel will/should load it.

I am not sure, but did 'netconfig' exist in 6.2?

Could you post your /etc/sysconfig/networ-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file?
And the output of /sbin/ifconfig?

Anothter thing, I know that tools like linuxconf seem like a great idea, but trust me, they are not. They change config files, you don't know what is going on, ... better do it the hard way.

HTH
codecruncher

I ran netconfig, and redhat 6.2 has it. There was a problem though - when I selected DHCP/BOOTP and hit OK nothing happened. The terminal screen would flash with a message extremely quick and then just sit there like I hadn't hit Enter. I couldn't read the message - it showed for about 2 - 5 milliseconds. When I run ifconfig all it shows is the loopback interface, not eth0. The configuration works fine on all other distros of linux, except Redhat 6.x series. The reason I really wanna get this working is becuase I bought a book that came with redhat 6.2 and it would basically teach me the basics of linux. It also showed me how to get Apache and Wu-Ftp working. But it didn't tell me what to do if my network didn't work.


Here's my ifcfg-eth0:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR=
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.254
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes


First, I think I see a couple problems with this. It should have gotten all the values for netmask, gateway, etc. from my DLink router. The network should be 192.168.0.1, and the gateway should be different too.

Here's what shows when I run ifconfig:

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0


It doesn't even show the eth0 interface, but when I go to
GNOMEMenu-->AnotherLevel Menus-->Administration-->Network Configuration, it says that the interface eth0 is activated. Netscape doesn't work, I can't ping the machine from other computers on the network, and I definitely can't access the FTP and Web server that are running . I really wanna get it figured out cause I'm thinkin about goin back to win98, which was a breeze to setup.