bringing up eth0 fails

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:05:46 -0700, Michael wrote:
> I've got Comcast broadband. I've had Red Hat 9.0 up and running on the
> network just fine. However after removing a router that was no longer being
> used I can't get to the network for some reason. I also have a telephone
> adapter for VOIP connected to the cable before the cable modem. It had been
> working fine with the telephone adapter previously.
>
> When booting I get the following message:
>
> bringing up interface eth0
> determining IP information for eth0...failed ./ifup: line 341: 2002 floating
> point exception /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE}

delete the file /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases

>
> If I remove the network cable from the telephone adapter and plug it
> directly into the cable modem I don't get this message, I just get:
>
> bringing up interface eth0 [failed]

Any time you change the device the cable modem is connected to, you
need to do a AC power reset for at least 15 seconds, before connecting
the ethernet cable.
Once the lights settle down to normal, then connect the ethernet cable
to the modem.

serice network restart should get you a lease.

I've got Comcast broadband. I've had Red Hat 9.0 up and running on the
network just fine. However after removing a router that was no longer being
used I can't get to the network for some reason. I also have a telephone
adapter for VOIP connected to the cable before the cable modem. It had been
working fine with the telephone adapter previously.

When booting I get the following message:

bringing up interface eth0
determining IP information for eth0...failed ./ifup: line 341: 2002 floating
point exception /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE}

If I remove the network cable from the telephone adapter and plug it
directly into the cable modem I don't get this message, I just get:

bringing up interface eth0 [failed]

Any idea how to fix this? When I use MS 98 things work just fine and I
retrieved the IP addresses of 2 DNS servers, the IP address, subnet mask,
default gateway and DHCP server. However I didn't want to enter these values
manually because of it's supposed to be done automatically.

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks

Mike

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:11:26 -0700, Michael wrote:
> Thanks Bit Twister,
>
> I tried deleting /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases and then "service
> network restart"

So I am guessing you had a _failed_ after the _service network restart_

> and rebooted. I got this same message:
>
> bringing up interface eth0
> determining IP information for eth0...failed ./ifup: line 341: 2002 floating
> point exception /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE}

Dang, was hoping you had junk in eth0.leases file.

>
> Any other ideas that I might try?

chkconfig tmdns off
chkconfig --del tmdns
service network restart

Thanks Bit Twister,

I tried deleting /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases and then "service
network restart" and rebooted. I got this same message:

bringing up interface eth0
determining IP information for eth0...failed ./ifup: line 341: 2002 floating
point exception /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE}

Except that the number 2002 was higher - 3014 or something like that. I
don't know if that's significant.

I tried doing the same thing after removing the VOIP telephone adapter and
got the same as before:

bringing up interface eth0 [failed]

Any other ideas that I might try?

Thanks,
Mike
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