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Old 09-09-2001, 07:49 AM   #1
edtbjon
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IP and network conn. lost on reboot...


Hi!

On my Athlon box, running SuSE 7.1 I've tried several different NIC's, and all of them behave the same. I.e. they loose their IP numbers and cannot connect to my small home network. I have to initialize it by running Yast2 and from there delete the card and have Yast2 to detect the card and reinitialize it again. (Well, I'm not a networking expert, nor a Linux expert.)
The cards I've used are Prime Xpress and Intel EtherExpress PRO100+.
My suspicion is that there is some kind of wrong with loading modules, but that is just a wild guess.
This is the output of ifconfig before and after reboot:

ore reboot:
foo5:~ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:27:2C:AB:5D
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1543 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x5000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16080 Metric:1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0




After reboot:
foo5:~ # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16080 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0


foo5:~ #

Cheers

Björn
 
Old 09-09-2001, 09:02 AM   #2
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is your network set to load on start up? try running 'ifup eth0' to try to bring up the ethernet interface. Look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts (for redhat.. prolly same for SuSE) and there should be a ifcfg-eth0 file, which defines what your IP addy for that card is and so forth. If that files not there, then that's weird... if it is there's probably just something not loading the netwrok on boot. Also try '/etc/init.d/network status' which should tell you what interfaces are known. once configured eth0 really shoold be listed somewhere.
 
Old 09-11-2001, 06:17 AM   #3
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Well, obviously SuSE and RedHat differs quite a lot about where it stores it's files etc.
But the good news is that the problem doesn't exist anymore. What I did was to update the kernel. (The easy way, by an RPM. Yes, SuSE and RedHat do have some things in common as well. :-) )

For those wanting to update the kernel in an easy way, follow this link: http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle/db/9i_71_72.html where the kernel update instructions are at the bottom of the page. The ftp.suse.com ftpserver seems very busy though, so try to find a local mirror. Following the instructions on the webpage, the update took me less than a minute from start to reboot. (Apart from the kernel update download of course.)
 
  


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