my eth0 is not coming up
 

I installed Mepis 3.3 and I have a strange problem.

My network requires me to use static IP .

So, in Mepis OS Center, Under the networking Tab, I entered the Static Nameservers (DNS Settings) and under eth0, i entered the static IP addresses.

Now, when i am told that I should restart the network, eth0 doesn't come up.

SO, this results in no internet connection in Mepis.

i have Ubuntu installed, that works absolutely fine.

What is wrong with MEPIS?

I found that there was no host mentioned in the /etc/hosts file and added the IP address of my machine there.(Using the help provided by Mepislovers.org)

Still no luck.

I have the same problem, but i use DHCP. I need to manually bring up eth0 every time using

Sure I will try that.

But my problem was like, no matter how many times i click on start eth0, it won't come up.
Hold on, i will try your idea!

I'm having the same problem. On the live-cd it activates eth0 fine and uses DHCP to auto detect my settings fine, but on my new hd install it doesn't work, and no matter how many times I try to start it (its grayed out) or use ifconfig eth0 up it just says "device doesn't exist." Why would it be different from the live-cd?

Same here, works perfectly with Live Cd, but not with HDD install.

However, I found a cheap way to do that.

What I did was I changed the settings for eth0 to DHCP and then tried to start eth0.
But it did not.
Then I changed the settings back to static.
Then, whoo -whee eth0 was up.


But, still i can't login to my ISP account, and so there is still no Internet connection in MEPIS.

Please help me out of this situation.

This is NOT Mepis experience talking. but...

had the same problem with a laptop running XP SP1 today. A chance look at the icon of the share (a Windoze term, kiddies) showed a tiny yellow blob next to it. It looked like a lock... it was! The firewall had been set on by default!

Is guarddog on Mepis screwing you around, maybe?

My 2 piase worth

Pofadda

Try entering your IP like this:
# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 init 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

the ip/netmask are examples only.

KC

Thanks man.

I tried that out, but it returned me some error.

Now, I disabled Guard Dog, and now, I am in.

I think that my OS Center is buggy............even if eth0 is stopped, I can ping my Gateway.

So, this means that it is ON.

Internet now working fine in Mepis.

I`m using Debian 3.1 and have the same problem (my eth0 and eth1 want coming up). The network card which is eth1(DHCP), is the one I would like to use automatically.I don't have a network cable plugged into eth0, because I`m not using it in the moment. When I restart the PC and run it under recover mode - it finds eth1(DHCP) and 'utilieses it' but it doesn`t detect the eth0(But why? :scratch: ) . OK everything is working successful except one thing :) when I start it in 'normal' mode it doesn`t detect the both eth. Please help!