Re: Netconfig Fail

Peter
2005-10-08T15:43:22Z

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.