i have a constant link status light on my network card, no light on the hub. this is a new linux redhat 8.0 build. i'm new to linux although a genuine hacker on windows as well as vcertified in hardware. settings are all ok and the system dual boots to windows and in windows the card works fine. it's only linux that the card isn't seeing the network. i can ping localhost but nothing external.

can anyone help me with my problem?

What kind of card do you have ? Most likely the appropiate driver or module isn't being loaded correctly or it just hasn't be recongnized properly ?

it's listed by linux as "DEC 21*40 and clones". eth0 starts fine but doesn't bind to the network.

What is your output of ifconfig eth0 ?

Linux lists it as "DEC 21*40 and clones" but what kind is it, Manufacturer/Model ??

Have you tried running netconfig to try and setup your network ?

ifconfig doesn't say

???

the card is an SMC pci card that works fine in windows.... IRQ 10. i tried netconfig and put in the network settings again, rebooted. still nothing.

You have a model number cause there are many SMC cards that use different modules/drivers in Linux.

The EtherPower series usually use the Tulip driver and the EZ series use the ne2000 driver.

it's etherpower

i made the mistake of dinking with network settings and told my ppp connection to start on system restart and now the box won't boot past trying to enable the ppp0 connection. CTRL-C won't do anything.

now i've done it!

That's no biggie, when you reboot by trying ctrl-alt-delete, at the boot prompt enter or boot into single user mode by typing: linux single

And let me know if that gets you back up into your system where you can tell it not to activate ppp0 on startup.

i don't get a boot prompt. i dual boot along with windows. grub lets me pick one and go.

From the Redhat site:

Booting Single-User ModeYou may be able to boot single-user mode directly. If your system boots, but does not allow you to log in when it has completed booting, try single-user mode.

If you are using GRUB, use the following steps to boot into single-user mode:


If you have a GRUB password configured, type p and enter the password.

Select Red Hat Linux with the version of the kernel that you wish to boot and type e for edit. You will be presented with a list of items in the configuration file for the title you just selected.

Select the line that starts with kernel and type e to edit the line.

Go to the end of the line and type single as a separate word (press the [Spacebar] and then type single). Press [Enter] to exit edit mode.

Back at the GRUB screen, type b to boot into single user mode.

thank god for me creating a bootdisk!

shell prompt "sh-2.05#"

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

changed ONBOOT=yes to ONBOOT=no.

now... back to my ethernet card problem.....

Lets see what modules you have listed as loaded:

Do a: lsmod

And lets see if its loading the tulip module.

yes, it's there