determining ip information for eth0...failed
before i get into the error let me tell you a bit on the background so you can all get a clear picture.
Ok the 1st time I installed Redhat 9 I was getting an error saying.... Dertermining IP information for eth0....failed - no link present check cable? I added this to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 script: check_link_down() { return 1; } And it worked - i got an ok when it was bringing up eth0. However....... I just reinstalled rh9 in exactlly the same way on exactlly the same computer with exactlly the same hardware. and when i modified the ifcfg-eth0 script again i got...... dertermining IP information for eth0 failed iptables...no chain/target/match by that name iptables...bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?) so i turned the iptables firewall off and now i get..... Dertermining IP information for eth0...Failed! I just don't know what else to do - please someone help me - why has this message only just starting to come up now when nothing has changed on the computer?! also it works fine when I connect to it via win98 (I had it on a spare hdd) in the same computer. Im at the end of my thether now! thanx in advance.... |
also if you need any more info from me such as what the output of a command is or the contents of a file let me know and i will tell you - i am going to be online for a good few hours yet so i can reply almost straight away!
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you know, when I used RH9, I had the same problem. So for a long time, I just used windows. But one day when I booted to linux the problem just disappears.
I donno, this is a strange problem. Could it be your ISP? |
its not my isp as the hard drive with windows on it works fine with the internet connection - thats what im using now - but i want to go back to my linux os :(
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Information would be really usefule at this point.
What network card are you using? |
I am using a "3Com Fast EtherLink XL 10/100Mb TX Ethernet NIC (3C905B-TX)
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http://support.3com.com/infodeli/too...uxdownload.htm
This is a link to the 3com page. It has drivers and instructions. Have a look there and see if this will solve your problem. |
ok i know this is gonna sound really stupid but this is a newbies forum after all i have these questions......
1) How to I get to the floppy drive to get the file once in linux? 2) How to I proceed to install drivers or is it specific to the file? |
1. normally, mount /mnt/fd0 - I think
2. check the readme's against the drivers - it should have instructions. Also read http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094 Another option, instead of the floppy, is to mount your win drive under linux. If your install picked it up, you should have a "windows" folder, poss. under /mnt/ |
Can you post your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file ?
To mount your floppy, type: mount /mnt/floppy To see if Linux loaded the driver for your network card, you can using the following command: Code:
dmesg | grep eth0 |
I installed the new driver but to no avil - still exaclly the same problem
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First of all: hello everyone, my first post here :newbie:
Then: you've to know that a newbie is a guru to me :study: However: did you try to manually start your NIC? ifconfig eth0 up |
Hi flamah,
It seems that my problem is similar to yours... Here is what is happening: * After installing Fedora Core 1 I am having the same error message as you when my computer is booting: "Dertermining IP information for eth0....failed - no link present check cable? SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resourse busy". I don't know, but it seems that the system couldn't bring the ethernet up. This problem occurs each time I turn on my PC (or when I am rebooting it). * When I saw the problem above I tryied to Active the Ethernet (logged as root) from the X-Window, but it also failed. At this time the error message that I receive is: "Activating network device eth0, please wait... Determining IP information for eth0... SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resourse busy SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resourse busy failed" I tryied to solve the problem with the following commands in the shell, but it didn't work: ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 up dhclient eth0 What can I do to solve this problem?? I hope you can help me... Please, give me very detailed instructions (if you can...). Thank you very much!!! |
You have way too many of these threads about the same problem.
Post the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Also the results of cat /etc/modules.conf lsmod and service network restart And finally the results of: ping -c1 localhost |
Here is the results of the files you asked for:
/etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKIN=yes HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 #Realtek | RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADD=00:60:67:06:24:55 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet DHCP_HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=no /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 8139too alias usb-controller usb-ohci alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd alias souund-slot-emu10k1 ping -c1 localhost everything is fine... OK!!! ifconfig eth0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy What can I do to solve this problem?? Please help me... |
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