Can't connect to Network or Internet under RH9 - IPv6 Issue?

Hi,

I was using SuSE 8.2 on a laptop dual booted with XP. I felt like
testdriving other distros, so I installed RH9 to replace SuSE.

My problem is that I can't get out onto my local network or subsequently the
Internet since I did this. Would this problem be caused by the fact that
IPv6 doesn't appear to be running? I put in the SuSE 8.2 LiveEval and all
connects well. I ran ifconig -a on both setups, and the results are below.
I'm not using DHCP...I set up a static IP address in both cases.

Here's the RH9 result:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:CA:BC:8F:FB

inet addr:192.168.1.22 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

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:9 Base address:0xc000

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:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:5974 (5.8 Kb) TX bytes:5974 (5.8 Kb)





and the SuSE result:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:CA:BC:8F:FB

inet addr:192.168.1.22 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::240:caff:febc:8ffb/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

RX bytes:4876 (4.7 Kb) TX bytes:1995 (1.9 Kb)

Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4

NOARP MTU:1480 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:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)



Another thing I can't figure out is why RH assigns the NIC IRQ 9 while SuSE
gives it IRQ 10.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Mike

Mike T. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was using SuSE 8.2 on a laptop dual booted with XP. I felt like
> testdriving other distros, so I installed RH9 to replace SuSE.
>
> My problem is that I can't get out onto my local network or
subsequently the
> Internet since I did this. Would this problem be caused by the fact
that
> IPv6 doesn't appear to be running? I put in the SuSE 8.2 LiveEval and
all
> connects well. I ran ifconig -a on both setups, and the results are
below.
> I'm not using DHCP...I set up a static IP address in both cases.

Offhand guess...

You configured RH9 by hand rather than using the gui tool and you
failed to enter the needed setup info in all the right files.

$ neat
or
$ redhat-config-network

The networking files are detailed in the RH9 Reference Guide:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...CONFIG-NETWORK
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...KSCRIPTS-FILES
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...resources.html

hth,
prg
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>
> Offhand guess...
>
> You configured RH9 by hand rather than using the gui tool and you
> failed to enter the needed setup info in all the right files.
>
> $ neat
> or
> $ redhat-config-network
>
> The networking files are detailed in the RH9 Reference Guide:
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...CONFIG-NETWORK
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...KSCRIPTS-FILES
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...resources.html
>

Hi,

Thanks for responding. I did use the GUI to configure. Everything looks
right, but I'm still stumped. I tested with Knoppix CD and also with
Mandrake 9.1. I get the same problem, regardless of configuration. It only
works with SuSE. The one difference I did notice was that SuSE had IPv6
enabled, while the others did not. Time for more testing, I guess.

Mike