network unreachable

Troy Engel tengel at sonic.net
Mon Nov 13 12:41:17 PST 2000


On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:29:19AM -0800, lynn sears wrote:
> I did a network restart and /var/log/messages and found nothing that
> appeared to me as a problem.  eth0 was brought up but network was
> still unreachable.  netstat -r  yielded only information concerning
> localhost no configuration for eth0...thanks again..lynn

I recently installed a new linksys card in an eMachine (these boxen are great little linux boxes) and found that the chipset used on the card is newer than RedHat 6.2 (and, therefore, your 6.1) isn't properly supported.  So, if you bought this card off the shelf new recently, read on.

Go here:

  http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html

And read through the info; in short, you go to the page http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html and grab the .src.rpm, and on your machine run "rpm --rebuild <name of RPM file>" to build a binary version, and install the binary version with "rpm -ihv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/<name of binary RPM>".

Then, make sure your /etc/conf.modules has these two lines (in order):

  alias eth0 tulip
  options eth0 options=3 debug=1

Give 'er a reboot, then see what happens.

-te

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