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I am brand new to Linux, and after installing Red Hat 8, I receive the following error messages during start up:
Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... FAILED
The network card is a SIS 900/7016CI which is built into the motherboard. I am trying to connect to a Linksys router. There is another RH8 machine that connects to the router fine.
What should I do to try to solve this problem?
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks
Ryanitus
These are the results of the 'ifconfig -a' command:
I've just installed Redhat 8.0 and each time it boot I got the same problem. It says "Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable?". When my system his fully loaded I just have to do a "ifup eth0 in a shell and it work after 2 or 3 times. I change my module "tulip" to be autoclean and restart the network and its still doing the same thing.
my eth0 is hooked up on a cable modem
network-script: bootproto: DHCP
onboot: yes
in my var/log/message:
Its sending DHCPREQUEST multiple times before dropping.
then like i told before.. when I'm in my shell.. I do ifup eth0 and it work...
I just dont understand hehe..
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