Hi all,

I just installed Fedora Core 3 succesfully, but it seems that determining IP information fails.

The following information is displayed during startup:

Determining IP information ... failed; no link present. Chech cable?

The cable and the network card have been checked. The network card is a HomePNA compatible card with AMD chipset. It seems that the card has been succesfully identified.

I noticed that editing ifcfg-eth0 and ifup configuration files at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ might help in older versions, but not in this case.

The bug is really annoying, because I thought that I had finally found a perfect OS for my purposes.

Could anyone help me in this issue, please? Should I report this as a bug?

Regards Sami Maisniemi

hi there
do u see glowing LEDS in ur Eth0 card? if u have them
and are u saying that u used to get this problem earlier and u solved this by editing the ifcfg scripts in older versions

regards

I can see the flashing lights. This should not be a hardware problem, because the network card was working just fine with Windows XP.

In case of Red Hat 9.0 and Fedora Core 1 I was able to solve this issue by modifying ifcfg-eth0 script (adding check_link_down function that always return 1).

I also found another solution from the web. In this case I commented out check_link_down check in ifup script.

However, these solutions failed in case of Fedora Core 3.

Regards Sami Maisniemi

I installed SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal. SuSE managed to setup the internet connection succesfully without any manual modifications. It seems that this is a bug. Where should I report this?

Regards Sami Maisniemi

if this is a software problem
go to

bugzilla.redhat.com

regards

This was indeed a software problem, but I managed to find a solution using bugzilla!

The network connection can be setup as follows:

1. Add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
options eth0 homepna=1

2. Run "depmod -a" from the commend line.

3. Reboot the computer

Hopefully this thread helps somebody in the future. I searched the solution for days. Thanks for your help masand.

Regards Sami Maisniemi

thanx for sharing the info!!

regards