Almost there..I think
 

Good day. Still working on getting my first home LAN working. The way it will eventually work is having all three(maybe four by the time I figure this whole thing out) computers through a linksys wired router. I have two desktops and one laptop. The desktops are running XP and REDHAT 8, and the laptop is also running rh8.

Now, I have internet access from both the XP machine and the laptop. It is my other desktop that seems to be giving me trouble. I can not seem to activate either ethernet card in the machine. I have been reading online quite a bit but nothing seems to fit the problem. If anyone can offer some help, let me know what I should be checking? What commands to run?

Please help if you can, I am finally starting to see the light at the end of this very long tunnel.

KP

Can you give us a bit more info:
1) What kind of ethernet card is it?
dmesg | grep -i eth
lspci

2) Is there a module loaded for your NIC?
lsmod

3) Are you using DHCP or fixed addressing?

Thanks for the response
 

I have according to the info from the system a SiS900 and DEC 21*40 style network devices. The modules(Still not sure how all this works. If I am right a module is like a driver in Linux right?) installed is the Tulip module that I read was the correct one for the SiS900 card.

When I just ran the lsmod, I didn't see any listing for the Tulip driver. How can I reinstall that, or what do I do?

Both cards(although they are deactivated) were to get the IP address with DHCP. I am behind a Linksys router if that helps?

Sorry for the "newbie-ness" of these questions but we all have to start somewhere and I think I am starting(Finally) to "get it".

Thanks for any help,

KP

HI
I have had all these kinds of probs too. I´m still working on the gateway. Please check www.tldp.org for all the howtos. I download the ones I want and print them, I prefer to read black on white.
If your internet card isn´t started on boot, it should start with
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start
At least in RH9 or FC!
Assuming I remember rightly.
You can start stop restart or show status of all kinds of things that way.