[PLUG] New Linux Install

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Sun Sep 1 09:48:21 UTC 2002


On 1 Sep 2002, Robbert van Andel wrote:
> I just installed RedHat 7.3 on a new machine and have run into a issue
> I've never seen before.  I am unable to activate my ethernet card (Intel
> EtherExpress Pro 100B).  I can get it activated by statically give it an
> ip, but am unable to ping anything outside of the local loopback.
> 
> When the ethernet card is set to use DHCP, I get the following error
> when restarting the network.
> 
> Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0...
> failed.
> 
> When the IP is set statically and I ping my gateway (a linksys router),
> I get the following error:
> 
> Ping 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) from 192.168.1.106 : 56(84) bytes of
> data.
> from 192.168.1.106 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
> 
> I've spent several hours on this and am at a loss.  Anyone have any
> ideas?

Can we see the output of `ifconfig eth0` and `route -n` ?

J.
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