network down on boot
 

Hello,

I have installed Mandriva2006 Powerpack.
On Asus A7N-266 + ahthlon 1700+.

My network was working fine. Until a few
days when my system boots up network is
shown as down.

Then I open up MCC and the moment I select
configure network it immediately goes up.

While booting it shows eth0 OK

How can fix this issue ?

Thanks

Varun

After a fresh boot, can you (as root) execute 'mii-tool' and 'ifconfig' and post the output here? What kind of a connection do you have? LAN? Routed LAN? Do you use DHCP or static IPs?

I have static IP on the LAN.

Output from mii-tool and ifconfig :

[root@localhost varun]# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:13413 (13.0 KiB) TX bytes:13413 (13.0 KiB)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@localhost varun]#


[root@localhost varun]# mii-tool -v
no MII interfaces found
[root@localhost varun]#

Strange at bootime it says bringing up
eth0 ---- OK

I hope this helps

Varun

I had the same problem with suse 9.3, dont know what I did, but the only ting I could think of was to reinstall the OS, after that its been working fine. I tried uninstalling the eth card, and reinstalling but during boot up it wouldnt wait for the eth card to come online even at 90 seconds it was wating like 5 seconds.

I've had Mandrake lose its ethernet connection sometimes. I went into network settings and checked the default settings and added a host name, localhost, then it worked just fine under dhcp. I re-started the computer and network settings were fine, networking came up at boot time.

Post your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file

Here's my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file :

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.4
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6TO4INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.1.4



Varun

Try getting rid of the duplicated on the end there but I'm not sure how much effect that'll have. Maybe try specifying the MAC address of eth0 by adding a line where FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is the MAC address of eth0