Hmm. . . . .after your restart the network services with the RC script, did you see eth0 assigned an IP? Can you ping the IP? What does route -n says?
Of course, it seems that it works only after you reboot the box, so the next question is: What kind of NIC card is it? Do you have another NIC card you can try? On Friday 11 January 2002 09:17 am, dave brett wrote: > Hi Rilindo > > I had tried restarting network without success. I even tried stopping and > starting network without success. > > david > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Rilindo Foster wrote: > > xinetd has nothing to do with your connectivity - it is just a daemon > > that calls the serves that connects to your box. > > > > Rather than trying to using ifconfig, just run the > > "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart". > > > > To configure network, use "netconfig"/ > > > > On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:18 am, you wrote: > > > I have little bits of time over a few months now and cannot figure out > > > how basic network services work on rh7.2. > > > > > > The problem I am having is the following: I upgraded the harddrive in > > > my laptop. At the same time I installed 7.2 from 6.2. I normally use > > > DHCP to get an IP address for the computer. The first problem is if I > > > forget to connect the ethernet cable, before turning on the computer, I > > > cannot figure out how to make the computer request an IP address. > > > There is nothing wrong with the computer, because when I connect the > > > cable and restart everthing works. Everything I have tried, which is a > > > long list does not seem to work. If I run "ifconfig" after forgetting > > > to connect to ethernet cable the only interface is "lo" If I try using > > > the control-panel to activate the ethernet interface it hangs (It may > > > be taking a long time and has not timed out, I have not left it to find > > > out) > > > > > > The second problem is I use my computer for troubleshooting and will > > > change the IP address to a static IP address. I have not been able to > > > make this work either. > > > > > > Would somebody please explain to me how to do these. > > > > > > thanks > > > david > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Redhat-list mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > > Rilindo Foster > > http://monzell.com > > AIM: rilindo > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Rilindo Foster http://monzell.com AIM: rilindo _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
