NIC help

[birdofprey]

I'm going to butt in here cause I have the same problem, but I'm what I call an Elite n00b so go easy on the instructions for me... I have literaly 3 days experience with Linux...

Ok what I got is:

1. Abit IS7 MOBO 2.4ghz 400mhz proc.
2. RealTek AC97 Audio ( per Bill Gates )
3. 3Com Gigabit LOM ( 3C940 ) ( also per Bill ) <== AKA 3c2000
4. nVidia GeForce4 MX 420

If yall don't mind I added items 3 and 4 cause me having problems with them too. Right now me in winxp due to no eth set up . Gonna try right now to get that working so I at least can read forums and research from with in Linux. I have been researching on these topics so as soon as I can come up with a solution will try to post them for all. But like I said I'm and extreme n00b.

Almost forgot...

RED HAT 9.0

I apreciate everyones time
Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

type lsmod and see if you even have a eth0 driver up...

goto a command prompt. type:
dhcpcd

then type ifconfig eth0 up

Let us know what all these say..

[sarumont]

***Split from the sound card discussion***

[birdofprey]

type lsmod and see if you even have a eth0 driver up...

goto a command prompt. type:
dhcpcd

then type ifconfig eth0 up

Let us know what all these say..

I just put in another ethernet card Realtek and RH 9.0 got that one running in a jiffy... so i guess eth0 is the Realtek card and eth1 is the 3c2000 card. At least I have connection now but still want to get that 3c2000 going.. i did 'ifconfig eth1 up' then 'ifconfig' and it gave me this

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:18:8C:13:B4
inet addr:192.168.0.170 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1474 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1326 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1610928 (1.5 Mb) TX bytes:222211 (217.0 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:FB:E5:4C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:291032 (284.2 Kb) TX bytes:291032 (284.2 Kb)

Now one note... I could not run the command 'dhcpcd'. Should i have that command installed or not? how do I install it!

On another note i was able to get the NVIDIA driver properly installed this time but i can't change resolutions

Thanks Guys

EDIT: as you can see I was able to compile the 3c2000 driver and load it.. I am out of time right now have to go get a hair cut and shave for a party tonight but... as soon as i come back i'm gonna post info on files i have added comands to trying to get it up...

[birdofprey]

I typed lsmod and this is what it gave me...

I see the 3c2000 loaded but...
and i also see 8139too <== Must be Realtek

[root@localhost /]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
agpgart 47776 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 1766848 11 (autoclean)
3c2000 134852 1
parport_pc 19076 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37056 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 13268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too 18088 1
mii 3976 0 [8139too]
sg 36524 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12208 0
scsi_mod 107160 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35708 0
cdrom 33728 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394 20168 0 (unused)
ieee1394 48780 0 [ohci1394]
keybdev 2944 0 (unused)
mousedev 5492 1
hid 22148 0 (unused)
input 5856 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 26348 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 19976 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3 70784 2
jbd 51892 2 [ext3]
[root@localhost /]#

[sarumont]

So does eth1 work now or does it not? You may have to check the settings in /etc/conf.d/net and see what it's telling eth1 to do.

[birdofprey]

No its not working gonna check /etc/conf.d/net now to see whats sup!

Edit: Don't have that file and folder!!! that might be a problem!

[sarumont]

/me scrolls up.

RH9...Not sure how the /etc structure is in RH...my bad.

[lordnothing]

could just type

su -c 'find /etc -iname *net*'

that should find what you are looking for..

[birdofprey]

let me make sure i understand!!!
i type

su -c (enter)
find /etc -iname *net* (enter)

is this the correct syntax? that means i'm invoking the find comand to search withing the etc dir for anything named net correct? then what do i do?

do i edit the net file, or am i just looking for the settings that are in there. I will post the settings in there later I'm at work today and obviously Linux is at home