Hi,
I'm a new Linux user, about 2 months. I have RH 6.1 installed as a
workstation on one HD, Win98 on the other HD of a new Gateway GP7-600
Mhz machine. My DSL internet provider installed a LinkSys LNE 100TX
ethernet card, which the designer of the tulip driver, Donald Becker,
helped me get working over a course of a week. ( in Linux ) It works
fine in Windows.
Here's what's going on. My DSL ISP told me that the IP address is
server assigned, and so I understand that this is the DHCP protocol. I
have installed the correct DNS Primary and Secondary addresses.
Using Gnome as root, I started the Network Configuration Utility.
Under the General tab, I put the Primary and Secondary DNS addresses.
Under the Hosts tab, only the loopback address is present. (127.0.0.1),
I did not add anything additional. In the Interface tab, I have:
Interface: eth0
Proto: DHCP
Atboot: Yes
Active Inactive
This is all I have done. When I select "Activate" for the eth0
interface, the dialog box locks up, and "inactive" does not change to
"active". However, if I log out, then log back in, the interface is
now "active" and my DSL works fine with Linux as expected. If I
select "Enabled" in Linuxconf, ( or Yes in atboot ) Linux will now try
to bring up eth0 at boot time. (My original intention) When the boot
process starts, it gets to the following two lines, and hangs. The
only way I can get out is Ctrl-Alt-Del.
bringing up interface lo
bringing up interface eth0
So, even as a beginner, I assume that whatever is locking up the Network
Configuration Dialog box when I try to go "active" is the same problem
that is causing intialization of eth0 to hang up during the boot
process.
It's checking for information somewhere that probably doesn't exist, or
is the wrong information, is my guess. But whatever it needs, is not
bad enough to keep the DSL from working, as I mentioned when activating
from Gnome. I really don't understand the process enough to guess
what's wrong. I've been through the Network HOWTO a couple of times,
but I have too many questions. I have also searched for any recent
documents on getting a DSL connection to work under Linux, but can't
locate any.
I'm very close to getting this to work correctly, if someone can help me
along a little.
Thankyou,
Robert Krueger
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