eth0 won't come up

[Craig White]

Alan Dayley wrote:
> 
> I newly installed RH 7.2 on computer.  Computer dual boots Win98 and
> RH.  Win98 brings up the ethernet connection without problem and connects
> via DHCP from my firewall.  RH fails to open eth0 during the boot
> process.  During the install, I specified the connection to be DHCP.
> 
> I have had RH on this computer before and it worked fine using eth0 as the
> connection device when it connected directly to the ADSL modem.  Now that
> it is supposed to be using DHCP from my firewall, eth0 will not come up.  I
> see one flash of the connect LED on the hub and then, after a minute, it
> fails.  It should be loading the tulip.o driver, as I can see specified in
> some of the scripts.
> 
> I have looked around at the various network scripts and such but I am a
> definite newbie when it comes to debugging scripts.  I am not sure where to
> look for answers.  Anyone out there with ideas on a solution?
> 
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Stop the firewall first - test eveything with no firewall occurring.

Does eth0 have a fixed IP address or is it dynamic?

details...details...

Craig