Hi,
Sorry to come into the middle of all this, but I too am facing a similar problem so
thought you could help me out.
I'm running Roadrunner on a dualboot win98/linux RH6.1.
My ethernet card is an SMC Ultrachip and works fine with Win98. With Linux during
bootup it gives a message "delaying eth0 initialization" and then says "failed". When
I type "ifconfig eth0" I can see the mac address of the ethernet card but I'm unable
to assign it an ip address dynamically. I used netconf and checked it out to use dhcp
but it just doesn't initialize.
Can you please help me with this.
Thanks,
Aamir.
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On Thu, 11 May 2000 16:08:31 Jim Roland wrote:
>Okay. I admit I'm coming in on this in the middle, so please bear with me.
>
>Robert, have you tried modifying the script manually? Linuxconf modifies some
>scripts that enable NICs at boot time, and tell the system what kind of IP to
>get (DHCP or Static, etc). Here is what you can do:
>
>1) Login as Root
>2) cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
>3) make a backup of your current script (just in case) with:
> cp ifcfg-eth0 eth0-backup
>4) Then, check to see that your script contains the following lines (it might
>contain more, but should mainly consist only of these):
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=DHCP
>
>5) Then, reboot your machine. If the DSL unit is providing full DHCP, then it
>will assign your NIC an IP, gateway, host/domain, and DNS.
> If it does not, let me know, and I will provide more parameters to get
>your card the parameters to run.
>
>
>
>Robert Krueger wrote:
>
>> Shawn Christian wrote:
>> >
>> > Robert,
>> >
>> > I would recommend you check with your DSL provider again...
>>
>> I checked today, it is DHCP.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> >
>> > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Robert Krueger wrote:
>> >
>> > > 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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