ethernet card not working properly
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Good afternoon. I have been working on this computer for maybe 3 or 4 weeks now and have had very many problems that I have worked through on it. The thing I've been stuck on for about a week now is that one or both of my PCI ethernet cards won't work. Symptoms with one ethernet card: eth0 is recognized and initialized and is shown to be working by the OS (redhat). but the LED's on the NIC card do not blink nor can i ping from this computer to another computer on the network or ping this computer from anothre computer on the network. The network is not connected to the internet, just a couple of computers connected by a hub. here is some useful information: OS: redhat 7 or 8 kernel: v2.4.20 NIC: Netgear I'm not sure of the specific model, but it had this written on the card: FA310TX Rev-D2 vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.163.10 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 vi /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.163.10 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.163.0 BROADCAST=192.168.163.255 ONBOOT=yes HOSTNAME=server.domain.com DOMAIN=domain.com lspci | grep Ethernet 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev20) dmesg | grep eth0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0:Lite-On 82168 PNIC rev32 at 0xc4888f00, 00:A0:CC:62:F0:A1, IRQ 10 I'm not sure what other information would be useful, but I've tried installing and uninstalling. I've tried atleast 3 different NIC cards (all the same make & model) The computer is actually an old web server and so it worked fine until 3 months ago when we shut it down. I am trying to get it to serve up some php pages utilizing mySQL databases that were already on the server. I don't need it on the internet, just to connect to my network and I can't get it to communicate with the hub it is connected to or anything else it should be doing. Any suggestions for trouble shooting are more than welcome. Thanks, - Brian |
Other information I think will be helpful:
- I can ping 127.0.0.1 fine - I can ping 192.168.163.10 fine $ ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:62:F0:A1 inet addr:192.168.163.10 Bcast:192.168.163.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:75 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:150 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX byutes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8f00 |
Any suggestions?
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Are the link lights illuminated on the hub or NIC?
What is the output of the command mii-tool? Have tried a different hub port or cable? |
Have you checked to see if your NIC is bad? My workstation used to go on and off until I replaced it and since then I've had no problems. Just because it's detected doesn't mean it's working. Also, do was someone already suggested and ping localhost. :) I hope this helps. :)
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1. No, the link lights are not illuminated on the NIC or the hub.
2. $ mii-tool eth0: no link 3. Yes, i have tried multiple cables that i have tested and know that they all work. I left this line of thinking when I saw that the light on the NIC was not on. I have also tried multiple NIC cards that are precisely the same make and model. |
If you're just trying one type of NIC, I would suggest trying another brand. It could be there is no driver for the NIC you're using.
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Well, I've used this type of NIC on this specific computer before and it's worked fine using the same OS. I am thinking that I may want to try another NIC anyways because I think there are issues with the drivers on these type of Netgear NIC's, but I do know that the drviers do exist and have been installed previously on the same exact system.
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Well, I'm not entirely sure what the problem was. I would speculate that it had to do with the NIC drivers. I put a slightly different model of netgear ethernet card in and after it was installed and configured, my computer problems ended. Thanks to everyone for all the help.
- Brian |
Great!
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