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01-01-2003, 08:47 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: California
Distribution: Red Hat
Posts: 9
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Failed to bring up eth0 on startup - RH8
I am brand new to Linux, and after installing Red Hat 8, I receive the following error messages during start up:
Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... FAILED
The network card is a SIS 900/7016CI which is built into the motherboard. I am trying to connect to a Linksys router. There is another RH8 machine that connects to the router fine.
What should I do to try to solve this problem?
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks
Ryanitus
These are the results of the 'ifconfig -a' command:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:12:0A:53
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2021 (1.9 Kb) TX bytes:3420 (3.3 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400
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:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4694 (4.5 Kb) TX bytes:4694 (4.5 Kb)
These are the results of 'cat /proc/interrupts':
CPU0
0: 333989 XT-PIC timer
1: 626 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
6: 29 XT-PIC floppy
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
11: 38271 XT-PIC usb-ohci, usb-ohci, eth0, SiS 7012
12: 10819 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 22914 XT-PIC ide0
15: 17377 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
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01-01-2003, 08:51 PM
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#2
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Kalamazoo, MI - US
Distribution: OpenMandriva
Posts: 144
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Is the router configured dhcp or static?
What class is the IP range?
What subnet?
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01-01-2003, 08:59 PM
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#3
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: California
Distribution: Red Hat
Posts: 9
Original Poster
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The router is configured for DHCP.
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01-01-2003, 09:02 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Kalamazoo, MI - US
Distribution: OpenMandriva
Posts: 144
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check linuxconf to see if you have dhcp enabled on your card
root@localuser#linuxconf
under: Networking>Basic Host Information
Hope that helps...
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01-01-2003, 09:05 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: California
Distribution: Red Hat
Posts: 9
Original Poster
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Ahh yes, that's what it was. Thanks so much for helping out a newbie 
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01-01-2003, 09:18 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Kalamazoo, MI - US
Distribution: OpenMandriva
Posts: 144
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no problem I am still pretty newbie myself
so it's connecting now?
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01-01-2003, 09:30 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: California
Distribution: Red Hat
Posts: 9
Original Poster
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Yup, everything is working great! Thanks again!
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01-01-2003, 09:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Kalamazoo, MI - US
Distribution: OpenMandriva
Posts: 144
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No problem. It's more help than I got before I found this site. Any other ?'s or prolems I can try to help.

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01-12-2003, 09:03 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 5
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Determining IP information for eth0... failed
Hi there!
I've just installed Redhat 8.0 and each time it boot I got the same problem. It says "Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable?". When my system his fully loaded I just have to do a "ifup eth0 in a shell and it work after 2 or 3 times. I change my module "tulip" to be autoclean and restart the network and its still doing the same thing.
my eth0 is hooked up on a cable modem
network-script: bootproto: DHCP
onboot: yes
in my var/log/message:
Its sending DHCPREQUEST multiple times before dropping.
then like i told before.. when I'm in my shell.. I do ifup eth0 and it work...
I just dont understand hehe..
I'm thinking to re-compile the kernel.
Do anybody have an other option?
thx

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01-13-2003, 02:14 PM
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#10
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Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Paraguay
Distribution: Mandrake 10
Posts: 573
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By default RH8 sets the eth interface with DHCP. Run #setup to configure the network interface in a text-graphical mode.
linuxconf is also a good tool, It has some bugs and it doesn't come with newer linux distro.
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01-17-2003, 01:10 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: New Hampshire
Distribution: Red Hat 8
Posts: 176
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I just had cable access installed and I am getting same thing--eth) initialization FAILS on boot.
linuconf = command not found. Running RH8
Any suggestions?
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01-17-2003, 03:43 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Paraguay
Distribution: Mandrake 10
Posts: 573
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They stopped using Linuxconf since 7.0 but you can always download it (look in google)
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01-17-2003, 04:22 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: New Hampshire
Distribution: Red Hat 8
Posts: 176
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Quote:
Originally posted by dfctve_end_user
check linuxconf to see if you have dhcp enabled on your card
root@localuser#linuxconf
under: Networking>Basic Host Information
Hope that helps...
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I'd like to know what that means, please. I have just had cable internet access installed and am now getting eth) initialization FAILED on boot.
Please help
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01-17-2003, 04:24 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: New Hampshire
Distribution: Red Hat 8
Posts: 176
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linuxconf gives command not found
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01-17-2003, 04:41 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Distribution: MDK 8.0, 9.0; RH 7.2, 8.0, 9.0, FC3, FC4, FC5
Posts: 355
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