Thanks for the suggestions...
The device/driver info i just read from the hardware browser gui and hwconf.
And kudzu has already put and alias for eth0 into /etc/modules.conf for the network card driver
I used modprobe and lsmod shows the driver, and from the "/sbin/ip link" command i get a "lo" entry and an "eth0" entry. ( somthing like "eth0 <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 link/ether")
Sorry i should have been more explicit... the config files i copied - i did change the ip address and hostname information. (but left the domain,DNS,netmask,gateway etc... information as on the other PC)
However, i still get an error which says the network is unreachable.
Thanks again, guess i'll just keep looking.. Lorna
PS hope the wrapping is working now? Tony Nugent wrote:
On Fri Mar 14 2003 at 14:09, Lorna M Stimson wrote:
Please wrap your lines at around column 78, please?
I am having problems accessing my network. I have a 3com
3cSOHO100TX network card,
Someone else said that there was no linux support for this card (yet). But still, try running kudzu and see if it puts an entry into /etc/modules.conf that aliases eth0 to a driver module... if it does, then you are in luck.
with device /dev/eth and driver 3c59x.
There is no support for ethernet devices via any of the /dev/ devices... what gave you the impression that this was how it was done?
In my modules.conf file their is a line "alias eth0 3c59x" and i
Ok, so I assume that if you do "modprobe 3c59x" then you can do "lsmod" it will show that it is loaded, and if you check the output of "/sbin/ip link" then it will show an entry for eth0 with a hardware address. If this doesn't happen, then that isn't the correct driver for that card.
have copied the files /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/sysconfig/network,
/etc/resolv.conf can be safely copied, but it is trivial to set up by hand. It is used to tell the system how/where to resolve host names, and it should point to your DNS server.
/etc/sysconfig/network needs to be modified on a per-host basis, so that this box has a different hostname to the one you copied it from.
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 from another machine
If ifcfg-eth0 specifies a specific IP address, then it MUST be unique for each computer in your network. If it mentions dhcp then the IP address will be obtained from a local dhcpd server.
where the networking works fine. But, still I dont seem to be able
to access any other machine.
Try the above suggestions.
Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?
Unless you really know what you are doing, try configuring these things via the redhat-config-network tool. Simply copying verbatim config files from another box isn't always the right thing to do.
Thanks
Lorna
Good luck.
Cheers Tony ---*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- Tony Nugent <Tony*linuxworks.com.au> LinuxWorks Gold Coast Qld Australia
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