Hi ya'll,

Im a newbie starting out with RH 7.1. I recently discovered the magnifiscence of linux and dove in with, imho, the hardest version available. My problem seems to be similar to some of the other newbies on this forum, but none of the "fixes" conveyed to the newbies have help me. I followed the basic "canned answers" for the "Bringing up device eth0.......[FAILED]" issue but none of the steps have worked for me. Since I wanted to create a proxy firewall with my cable service, I installed 7.1 in a server mode then after installation, I added the dhcpcd SRPMS for dhcp client support. I can't get my system to do dhcp on boot. Initially I could do a "dhcpcd -h CXXXXXXX-A eth0" and I coud setup the network manually. Now I cant even do that. Help just want to connec via DHCP with my isp (@Home Arlington, TX)


Here are the parameters for:

cat /proc/pci
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports
ifconfig (only lo shows)
ifconfig eth0
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cat /proc/pci

Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 16).
IRQ 3.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40.
I/O at 0xde00 [0xde7f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffbf80 [0xefffbfff].

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cat /proc/interrupts

CPU0
0: 91623 XT-PIC timer
1: 685 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
12: 16452 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 16522 XT-PIC ide0
15: 4218 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

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cat /proc/ioports

0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
c000-cfff : PCI Bus #01
cc00-cc7f : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 6306 3D-AGP
da00-daff : C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
dc00-dc3f : C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738
de00-de7f : Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit
ffa0-ffaf : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
ffa0-ffa7 : ide0
ffa8-ffaf : ide1

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ifconfig (eth0 did not show up)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
================================

ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 000:09:3D:7C0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xde00

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The key to this is probably in the ifup file.
I installed mine with the interface as dhcp for my cable modem then I had to add the "-h ccxxxxxx-x" part and reboot. That's it.

I used the name my ISP gave me in place of ccxxxxxx-x of course.

section of /sbin/ifup file
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if [ -n "${DYNCONFIG}" ]; then
PUMPARGS="-h ccxxxxxx-x"
DHCPCDARGS=
if [ -n "${DHCP_HOSTNAME}" ]; then
PUMPARGS="-h ${DHCP_HOSTNAME}"
DHCPCDARGS="-h ${DHCP_HOSTNAME}"
fi
if [ -n "${NEEDHOSTNAME}" ]; then
PUMPARGS="${PUMPARGS} --lookup-hostname"
DHCPCDARGS="${DHCPCDARGS} -H"
fi
if [ "${PEERDNS}" = "no" ]; then
PUMPARGS="${PUMPARGS} -d"
DHCPCDARGS="${DHCPCDARGS} -R"
fi
echo -n $"Determining IP information for ${DEVICE}..."

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if it don't work look here for more info

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Cable-...roduction.html

there is an RPM available also linked to in the doc that is supposed to do it for you.

I had to figure mine out from a comment about using pump on an older version, the scripts are different for 7.1