Re: activating eth0

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

At 12:16 PM 11/19/2003 -0700, Anna G. Zapata wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I am running RH 8.0.  My network card was working just fine and then one 
>day just flopped over.  I have tried
>reactivating it using the GUI and using the command ifup eth0, but nothing 
>seems to work.  Any thoughts?

First, provide technical descriptions of the failures, not metaphorical 
ones (e.g., "just flopped over" is colorful but not very informative). 
Beyond that ...

What were the symptoms of the initial failure? Did it occur out of the 
blue, or after a reboot, or what?

What does happen when you try to reactivate the interface? That is, what 
happens when you enter (as root) the command "ifup eth0"?

What is the complete, unedited output of "ifconfig -a"? (After you do the 
above attempt to reactivate, or right after a fresh boot/init, but tell us 
which you are reporting.)

What kernel are you running ("uname -a")? Is it stock or one you compiled 
locally?

What sort of NIC is it? What kernel module(s) does it use (or is the driver 
compiled into the kernel)?

Is there any possibility of either a physical failure of the NIC or a BIOS 
problem?

During the boot/init sequence, does the kernel (or the loading of the 
relevant module) detect the NIC? (This info will show up in the dmesg 
buffer, which RH *may* write out someplace like /var/log/dmesg .)

You may have checked some of this already, but I don't know what actual 
efforts are covered by your statement that "nothing seems to work", so I 
decided to be inclusive rather than risk skipping something useful because 
it was too "obvious" to ask about.



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