Re: Netconfig Fail

[Peter <heisspf@skyinet.net>]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:23:24 -0700
Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com> wrote:

> chuck gelm wrote:
> [...]
> >> Yes neither in Fedora nor in DSL had I to enter anything. In Fedora I 
> >> just
> >> had to activate eth1, eth0 was taken by the onboard LAN card.
> > 
> > 
> >  It seems to me that Fedora is finding your add-on PCI card and
> > assigning it eth0, yet Slackware is assigning it eth1 !?
> > 
> >  I expected, since you disabled the on-board ether device,
> > all distributions would only find a 'eth0'.
> > 
> >  So, if Slackware assigns it 'eth1' and your rc.inet1.conf assigns
> > DHCP to eth0, it will not work.
> > 
> >  Run dhcpcd from a console. If Slackware sees your PCI NIC as eth1;
> > dhcpcd eth1
> > 
> >  If that works, you can either edit rc.inet1.conf or add
> > 'dhcpcd eth1' to rc.local.
> > 
> 
> Chuck -- I think you read Peter's message backwards. The ifconfig output 
> he posted said (as I read it) that *Slackware* assigned the NIC to eth0, 
> while *Fedora* assigned it to eth1. Not the other way aound. (I'm 
> assuming, of course, that Peter is able to distinguish the 2 NICs 
> correctly, presumably by having noted their MAC addresses.)
> 
> So the main thing that this means is that Peter is being inexact when he 
> says yes to my question: Was everything else the same (across the 3 
> tests)? I note now, in what you posted (and I requote above), that Peter 
> says he did NOT disable (in the BIOS) the on-mobo NIC for the Fedora test.

> As usual with these problems, the devil is in the details, and as is too 
> often the case, we have here the added problem of needing to get the 
> details reported correctly before we can do useful troubleshooting.
> 
> At this stage, I'd suggest that Peter repost his trouble report from the 
> beginning, this time putting in all the relevant details (e.g., 
> complete, unedited "ifconfig -a" output from all 3 tests; complete, 
> unedited "lsmod" results from all 3 tests; complete "dmesg" output 
> regarding NIC detection from all 3 tests; and complete dhcpcd, or 
> whatever DHCP client the others use, logging from all 3 tests) ... and 
> this time doing all 3 tests with the on-mobo NIC disabled in BIOS and 
> EVERYTHING ELSE, except choice of distro, the same across all 3 tests.
> 

OK I will try to get it all together. Jumping from distro to distro hoping staying online which I was not this morning for 4 hours.

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