[97339] in RedHat Linux List
Re: eth0 stopped working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 2 17:22:14 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 16:58:39 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, Adam Getchell <acgetchell@ucdavis.edu>
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Adam Getchell wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Well, the first time I installed Linux everything went great for about a
> week until eth0 stopped working and I lost networking. I posted this
> problem to the list but did not get answers. I poked around in inetd.conf,
> network configurator, and linux.conf and finally decided (since I ruled out
> my ethernet card or cable being the problem) to do a reinstall.
>
> So, my reinstalled from scratch: Linux 5.1 works great, even has Apache
> running httpd fine. Today when I boot up the system (I leave it off until
> I've applied all the security patches, and I was busy last week) I have the
> same symptoms, eth0 doesn't work. I can try to activate the interface using
> netconfig, but that does not work (though it claims eth0 is active until I
> save and then rerun network configurator).
>
> So, are there suggestions to solve this? I've read through the RedHat
> errata, system admin guide, and net admin guide, but I so far have not
> found a solution to this problem.
>
> Dmesg doesn't show anything with eth0 delaying loading.
>
> This is a bit time critical since I have work to do by Wednesday that
> requires telnetting ....
Press the "Enabled" button in
linuxconf --> networking --> basic host information --> addaptor 1
If this fails, be sure you have ALL upgrades installed from
http://www.redhat.com/errata. It's worth it.
>
>
> Thanks,
> --Adam
>
> acgetchell@ucdavis.edu
> "Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability in the opponent." --Sun Tzu
>
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