eth0 won't come up

[Jeff Barker]

Give us the text from the console on bootup.

All the messages you see while it's loading? Paste them in here.



At 01:00 PM 11/11/2001, you wrote:
>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?
>> 
>----
>Stop the firewall first - test eveything with no firewall occurring.
>
>Does eth0 have a fixed IP address or is it dynamic?
>
>details...details...
>
>Craig
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