[NCLUG] device configuration in linux (RH62)

[Charles Clarke]

Put a set -x on the second line of /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
and let us know what line it fails on, etc.

charles

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, S. Luke Jones wrote:

> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:48:32 -0700
> From: "S. Luke Jones" <luke at frii.com>
> Reply-To: nclug at nclug.org
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: [NCLUG] device configuration in linux (RH62)
> 
> I've got a PC here that I'm trying to run Linux on and
> for some reason the RH installer is skipping the setup
> network section. When I run the RH X-based netconfig
> or the curse-base netcfg I don't do much better. When
> I run LinuxConf things are, frankly, worse. Finally,
> when I go mucking around in /etc/conf.modules and
> /etc/sysconfig/network and .../network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> I am equally unsuccessful.
> 
> Ultimately I always get a [FAILED] message from the
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script when I try to start things.
> This happens with a two different PCI cards: the 3COM 10/100
> that uses 3c59x and a LinkSys card that, if I read the
> Ethernet HOWTO correctly, should be a tulip card.
> 
> I never had any trouble with this box when it ran windows,
> except Windows, of course, so I'm wondering if there is
> some kind of device conflict and how to detect it.
> 
> -- 
> Luke Jones = luke/vortex/frii/fullstop/com
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