Hi
I have got fc3 installed on my acer laptop along with windowsXP(dual boot). I am having problems connecting to the ethernet via eth0 in linux. Linux is correctly detecting my NIC as "SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter". But it wont allow me to activate it. When I tried to activate it would give out an error saying that "unable to activate eth0, check cable ?". Below are the outputs of the ifconfig and dhclient eth0 cmds:
ifconfig
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:E5:89:AB
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fee5:89ab/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:89 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10490 (10.2 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x1800
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:3608 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3608 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4504451 (4.2 MiB) TX bytes:4504451 (4.2 MiB)
dhclient eth0
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sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:c0:9f:e5:89:ab
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:c0:9f:e5:89:ab
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
Any help would be greatly appreciated ...
Thanks
Kannan
PS:I am able to access the internet from windows.