On March 1, 2004 02:44 am, joe wrote: > Hi, > > I have an existing small network of Pc's and RH9 machines. I have been > trying to bring up a new RH9 box on the network without any luck. > > I have checked the cables and they seem ok > firewall has been disabled > ifconfig looks ok - correct ip address & netmask, and the interface is up > netstat -r also looks ok although the default route takes a long time to > come up, compared to other RH9 boxes. > > any ideas.. > > Joe Hi Joe, - ping 127.0.0.1 - ping your IP (I think you said that failed, so, presuming 127 pings, check that the card is loaded: 1) ifconfig -a - show eth0, if so try without the -a. 2) cat /etc/modules.conf look for something like: "alias eth0 tulip" then 'lsmod |grep tulip' (or whatever) 3) look at 'dmesg' and the /var/log/messages for errors about loading the nic. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list