On December 9, 2004 09:35 am, Greg Frinchaboy wrote: > Loaded Red Hat 7.3 on a new Dell 4700. It could not find the onboard > NIC. Downloaded and compiled new Intel e100 driver. Found eth0. > ethtools says it is up at 100 Mb/s half duplex. Can't ping! The box was > shipped from Dell with XP installed. Tested the ethernet port using XP > and it worked. With linux, when the RJ45 cable is plugged in, the cable > connect light is lite. The activity light is not. When I ping the > sub-net, the activity light blinks. So, it acts like I am trying to > send, but I am not receiving. I can plug a Dell 4600 into the same port > and all is well. Both the 4600 and the 4700 use Intel's 82562 chip. The > 4600 is an ET rev, the other is an EZ rev. According to the Intel > product page, the only difference is the foot print of the chip: SOIC > vs. BGA. Tcpdump shows no activity. It acts like I need some other > driver to enable the motherboard's interface to eth0. I have plugged a > PCI nic card in and can use it as eth1. However, I need the two PCI > slots for other - not installed yet - hardware! > > kernel is 2.4.20 > also tried 2.4.28 > > Any help would be greatly appreciated... > Thanks, > Greg Hi Greg, It sounds like the nic is working, just not making it out of the box. what does "ifconfig -a" show for eth0? what does "route -n" show? can other machines ping that box? (i would expect this to fail if the nic cannot answer arp requests) (is the cat5 cable good? I have seen damaged cables that displayed a link lite, but could not pass data) -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
