Linux: DCHP Problems

[NeoStarO1]

HI Folks,

Finally have new linux install and will be primary. Anyhooo. Been a while since do some of this stuff.

I am not able to connect to the interenet at all. When its booting and at point eth0 it fails each time then my DCHP is blinking in the list directory.

I can't remember how to fix this.

Says it can't veryify my ip address and such, is there a place where i cna release and renew ip address in linux? I forget how been so long.

Time to learn again. Yeehaw!!!

TIA

[jkrohn]

as root.

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up

Will renew your IP. What distro?

Jkrohn

[NeoStarO1]

thank you, now i remember ipconfig. hahaha, just need a little nudge.

Same distro as other box. RH7.2


Edit: thought was RH7.3 but its not its RH7.2 Sorry

[NeoStarO1]

Still not working, What could I be doing wrong? I can ping the card itself or so it looks like. Just keeps going.... so did a kill.
but i cannot ping any internet address.

Also tried recycling the modem itself.


Edit: well still no go. im changing the connection back and forth from laptop to linux box so I cna get on net and research and hopefully find out why im not able to connect with linux. i don't recall it being this diffucult before.

ummmmmmmm im open for suggestions.

[jkrohn]

Ok, is eth0 working? (ie eth0 up doesn't give errors)

do an ifconfig eth0 are the values what you expect?

Jkrohn

[NeoStarO1]

I did a ifconfig eth0 to see what was there. and i see hardware addrss but no mac address at all. i read over at linux junior somewhere that you should be able to see your mac address which I can't.

I did do a ifconfig eth0 up then same thing down and no changes that I can see.

not sure what to think right now. do you wnat me to type up all the info the ifconfig eth0 shows?

[krohnjw]

Sure, you can try manually specifying it with the ifconfig command if you know the static information.

[NeoStarO1]

well the ifconfig command alone only gives me info. I had tried linuxconf but that was too complicated. I recall it being easier, makes me wonder if for some odd reason the network card is going bad or something. however it had worked fine when I had 2kpro on it only thing it did was it would disconnect every once in while for a few seconds then come back on when i had my 2kpro installed on this machine.

I also recall some sort of "wizard" thingy with the config thingy. i tried XF86Config and said command not found, tho i can navigate to where its at so not sure why its giving me that.

tried to find netcfg also but said command not found and i thought it maybe wasn't installed so upgraded the install packages that is how i got the linuxconfig in there. sooo right now im at a loss of where to look.

been reading few pages but they are not getting me no where.

Edit: well I have boiled it down to about three different things in no order.

1. improperly config network card.
2. drivers need reinstalled
3. bad network card (don't see how this can be tho)

Im off to bed, im tired and will pick up on this in the am.

Thanks and will read up on any ideas or replies tommorrow.

nighters for now.

[SpookyEddy]

PUMP

Description: Simple DHCP/BOOTP client.
This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat.

If you just want to grab a new ip addy from the dhcp server you can run pump. Its a RedHat tool but is available for quite a few distro's.

Regards

eddy

[NeoStarO1]

Okay I found the problem. hehehe talk about being major spacy!

I plumb forgot that this system has to network cards, one that is integrated and the other which is one I installed.

When it was setup with my 2kpro I had always disabled the integrated intel nic card.

So that is part why I can't connect because its designated as eth0 and the other one eth1.

So now my question is how do i disable the intel network card so my primary network card is the linksys 10/100???

I also remember a gui and/or text base from CL to configure the network card, what is the command for this. i been looking high and low for this. been too dang long. hahhaa. love this learn.

gee no wonder it wasn't seeing my isp. LOL. this is just tooo funny.

[NeoStarO1]

well finally got it working, i have to use eth1 and not eth0
so need to figure out how to disable eth0

but now i got a new problem i installed kde and NOT gnome and gnome loaded as my xwindows.

[jkrohn]

but now i got a new problem i installed kde and NOT gnome and gnome loaded as my xwindows.

Then it appears as if Gnome is installed

Do you boot to a graphical login or a text login?

Jkrohn

[NeoStarO1]

I boot to text login always. my prefered method.

All is squared away Yeehaw!!!!
Thank you for all the help.
I have the eth0 one disabled now so it doesn't go through trying to connect during bootup. only eth1 is enabled now.

also have my kde back too.

Well I considered this problem solved. Now onward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now where is that dancing gif? hehehe

[x86MeOneMoreTime]

DHCP + SysV Init scrips is no good combination.

It always messes for me.

Either it takes 4 weeks to boot or it doesent work at all.

That's why... i use slackware!

[x86MeOneMoreTime]

Originally posted by NeoStarO1
well the ifconfig command alone only gives me info. I had tried linuxconf but that was too complicated. I recall it being easier, makes me wonder if for some odd reason the network card is going bad or something. however it had worked fine when I had 2kpro on it only thing it did was it would disconnect every once in while for a few seconds then come back on when i had my 2kpro installed on this machine.

I also recall some sort of "wizard" thingy with the config thingy. i tried XF86Config and said command not found, tho i can navigate to where its at so not sure why its giving me that.

tried to find netcfg also but said command not found and i thought it maybe wasn't installed so upgraded the install packages that is how i got the linuxconfig in there. sooo right now im at a loss of where to look.

been reading few pages but they are not getting me no where.

Edit: well I have boiled it down to about three different things in no order.

1. improperly config network card.
2. drivers need reinstalled
3. bad network card (don't see how this can be tho)

Im off to bed, im tired and will pick up on this in the am.

Thanks and will read up on any ideas or replies tommorrow.

nighters for now.

ifconfig doesent just display info.

it can set it aswell.

[NeoStarO1]

um i already resolved this problem, if you look at my last post it had to do with the eth0 and eth1, it was looking at my eth0 nic card to establish connection when in fact its actually connected to the eth1.

Anyways, this problem been resolved for some time now. Thanks.