I previously had Red Hat 7.2 on here along with WinXP and Win2K. Well, it was that time of the quarter for WinXP to be reinstalled (groan), so I decided why not go all out and get RH8 on there too. Installed it with no problems, went to start it up for the first time, and it hangs during the ethernet init! Here's what I get:

Checking for new hardware [OK]
Starting iptables [OK]
Setting network parameters [OK]
Bringing up loopback interface _

And it will blissfully sit there until I decide to reboot the machine (I let it sit for 6 hours once, just to be sure). Loopback tests do not indicate any problems in XP or 2K, and card connects to 'Net fine, it worked fine before in RH 7.2. Here's a little more about my network config:

--eth0 is an Intel Pro/100 PCI NIC connected to Linksys router acting as a combo DHCP router and HW firewall, in turn connected to Linksys cable modem. The problem occure regardless of whether the NIC is connected to the router or not, again indicating an issue that occurs before the PHY is init'd. There has been no change in my system config since I installed RH 7.2. As I said earlier, the NIC is detected during setup as eth0 with no problems. I'm thoroughly stumped...any ideas?

SoundMan

Hello.

I had the same problem. The loopback interface couldn't load.

The machine is a Laptop VAIO PCG-GRX626 with a network card
identified like:

Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) Chipset Ethernet Controller
Intel® PRO/100 VE adapter

I downloaded the driver from www.intel.com: e100-2.1.29.tar.gz
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...p?Prod_nm=e100

and followed the instructions in the README file.

rpmbuild -tb e100-2.1.29.tar.gz
cp /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/e100-2.1.29-rh80.i386.rpm ./
rpm -i e100-2.1.29-rh80.i386.rpm
netconfig

Now the ethernet works great. It boots well and detects when the ethernet cable is not connected.

So my recomendation is that you get the drivers directly from intel.

the loopback interface shouldn't have anything to do with your ethernt cards or anything, just check that your /etc/hosts file has a sane entry such as

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

should be fine after that.

Hello
I am Usman

I am Using Redhat Linux 8, I am having a Problem
I dont know process of creating logical LAN Card, like we have MSLOOPBACK in Windows to solve LAN Card Problems because i dont have LAN Card in my System.

Second thing can u tell me how to install and configure my modem to connect it to the internet. I have LUCENT WIN MODEM.
Linux does not show my modem.

I thought perhaps it did not detected modem but one of my friend told me that LINUX might have detected it but not showing you shoukd try

MINICOM -s and PPPD
but i could not use it...........

Can u tell me the process so i would be able to connect myself to the internet......


Thanks