Red Hat 7.1 Network Config Problems 1

[NEFJ]

Hey There,

OK during the install of RH 7.1 I have yet to get prompted to configure the networking components. I have tried swapping out NICs multiple times. Right now I have a 3com 905c in there. When I goto try and manually configure the networking and restart the service it bombs out. I know that the NICs are functioning because I just reinstalled RH 7.0 and everything went like butter.

Any ideas? Thanks much - NJS

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Well, firstly if its the same box did you do an upgrade rather than an install ? That should preserve all network settings if they were working under 7.0 .

Other than that, you should be able to run '/sbin/netconf' as root and configure the eth0 interface from there. The config information ends up in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 although the actual driver module would be referred to in /etc/modules.conf .

If you do a '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart' and still get errors then look in your logs after you do that restart -

tail /var/log/messages

See if any clues are given there. You can also do 'cat /proc/pci' to make sure the adapter shows up on the pci bus and look in /var/log/dmesg (boot messages) to see any reference to eth0 :

cat /var/log/dmesg | grep eth

Hope this helps

 

[NEFJ]

First off thanks for responding. I really really appreciate it.

I have yet to try to run a upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1, I mainly wanted to make sure that the NIC was functioning.

Alright, going through what you said. The device shows up in the PCI bus, the IFCFG-eth0 file looks like its set up correctly. Its set up for DHCP for the time being, Ive tried giving at static IP and it still doesnt work.

The only refrences to networking in messages after doing a restart is

network: bringing up interface lo: succeeded
ifup: delaying eth0 initialization
network: Brining up interface eth0: failed

The only line in the modules.conf is:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

There were no refrences to eth in the boot log. I also could not find a /sbin/netconf.


Once again thanks for all of your help. -NJS

 

[ifincham]

Hi,





The 'delaying eth0 initialisation' means something is not quite right. You should have a reference to the driver in /etc/modules.conf . Try adding the following line and restarting the network :





alias eth0 3c59x





/sbin/netconf is part of the 'linuxconf' rpm so presumably you don't have that installed either - I seem to recall now that it wasn't installed by default on 7.1 which seems pretty strange as its the main redhat config tool. So, you can just install linuxconf and netconf should then work. Download --> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.1/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/linuxconf-1.24r2-10.i386.rpm and 'cd' to where you saved it then do as root :





rpm -Uvh linuxconf*.rpm





/sbin/linuxconf and /sbin/netconf should now work.





Hope this helps

 

[NEFJ]

Woohoo! adding the alias to the modules.conf and restarting it worked. Also downloading linuxconf right now. Thanks for all of your help. I really appreciate it. Now on to tackling SAMBA -NJS