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!

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

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)

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:

I installed the new driver but to no avil - still exaclly the same problem

First of all: hello everyone, my first post here
Then: you've to know that a newbie is a guru to me

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...