Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:16 PM, William Warren wrote: > > On 8/17/2011 9:58 AM, Lisandro Grullon wrote: >> >> Alfred, >> I would not delete network manager, it would be better if you stop it >> "service NetworkManager stop" and disable from booting "chkconfig >> NetworkManager off"it can tu

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-18 Thread William Warren
Is there a technical reason...like the system won't network at all.. as to not removing network manager? On 8/17/2011 9:58 AM, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Alfred, I would not delete network manager, it would be better if you stop it "service NetworkManager stop" and disable from booting "chkconfig

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:58, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > >> In a second note about the multi-NIC, i would focus in the actual card that >> have the connections > > That's my point, I only have one NIC (it's a desktop system) yet NM created >

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 08:56 -0700, John Doe wrote: > but I really prefer static configurations for servers. Absolute, every time. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread John Doe
From: Alfred von Campe > I don't really like how NM affects the system; I think I'll disable it. +1 Must be helpful for end users connecting to multiple networks, but I really prefer static configurations for servers. JD ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:58, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > In a second note about the multi-NIC, i would focus in the actual card that > have the connections That's my point, I only have one NIC (it's a desktop system) yet NM created two config files, one with ONBOOT=no and the other with ONBOOT=yes.

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Alfred, I would not delete network manager, it would be better if you stop it "service NetworkManager stop" and disable from booting "chkconfig NetworkManager off"it can turn a useful tool for troubleshooting in the future. In a second note about the multi-NIC, i would focus in the actual ca

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:37, Tom H wrote: > If you mean after the install, what's the output of "chkconfig --list > NetworkManager", "chkconfig --list network", and your NIC's ifcfg-X? I ended up re-installing the system from DVD this morning (don't have my kickstart server set up yet), and this t

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread John Doe
From: Alfred von Campe > However, I can't wrap my brain around the new NetworkManager to get it to > configure the eth0 interface to obtain an IP address from our DHCP server. > I've seen the FAQ on the wiki and the interface is up, but it doesn't > get an IP address.  I've done the installati

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:37, Tom H wrote: > If you mean during the install, add "--activate" to your kickstart > file's "network ..." line. That's good to know for the near future when I will be tweaking my existing kickstart files. > If you mean after the install, what's the output of "chkconfig

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 16, 2011, at 17:30, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Is you network card even loaded when you type "ifconfig -a" in the $hell? > Give us more details as to what you are doing to get the DHCP address. I'm away from the system now, so I can't post the output if ifconfig now, but basically I did a

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step > did a basic > install from DVD (Desktop target, all defaults). Next I will try to automate > the > installations as I did for CentOS 5 using the anakonda-ks.c

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Is you network card even loaded when you type "ifconfig -a" in the $hell? Give us more details as to what you are doing to get the DHCP address. >>> Alfred von Campe 08/16/11 4:57 PM >>> I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step did a basic install from DVD (Des

[CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step did a basic install from DVD (Desktop target, all defaults). Next I will try to automate the installations as I did for CentOS 5 using the anakonda-ks.cfg file generated by the manual install. However, I can't wrap my b