At 08:07 PM 8/2/02 -0400, Enrique Nieves wrote: >I'm a newbie with Linux and I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.3 in my AMD K6 >box (128 mb RAM, 233 mhz, 6 gb hard drive) to be the sole OS for that box. >When the installation program tries to detect the network card (eth0) it >gives me a FAILED message.
Please be a bit clearer about the details here. 1. What NIC do you have in the system? Make and model. 2. At what stage does RH fail? (Technically, eth0 is an interface, not a card; it does not get created until -AFTER- the card has been detected and an appropriate kernel module loaded.) 3. Quote the EXACT error message (not just the word "FAILED"). 4. Has the NIC worked previously, say with some version of Windows? Or is this a new NIC (from the hardware details, I'd guess it is not a completely new PC)? >I'm trying to have a home network using a LinkSys router with a Windows XP >box and this AMD PC connected peer to peer and another ethernet connection >to use with my laptop. What do you mean by "peer to peer"? In this context, the term usually describes two hosts that are connected directly via Ethernet, without a hub in between ... but your mention of the Linksys router causes me to doubt that that is what you mean. Do you just mean that the two hosts are on the same LAN? >I'm trying to decide if the problem is in the NIC card or in my attempt to >install Red Hat. Is it very difficult to connect a Linux box and an XP box >peer to peer? No matter what you might mean by "peer to peer", the answer is no, at least from the Linux side. (Also from the XP side, probably, as I doubt it is very different from WIn98 or Win2k). But if RH is having trouble either detecting or initializing your NIC, you are way far away from worrying about anything that the host is connected to (other host, hub, whatever). The details I asked for above will help us give you advice. The problem *may* be a NIC that the RH installer cannot auto detect, requiring you to configure it manually (which someone else will need to help with the details of, since I haven't installed RH in years). -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
