K Wannamaker wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I hope your collective knowledge can help me out here!
>
> I have installed Fedora on a system which is now a dual-boot system. The
> Windoze side sees the internet, yaddah yaddah yaddah, but the Fedora
> side can't. It doesn't even see the router. Now, I am new at this Linux
> issue, but am trying to learn as much as possible. I have tried hard
> coding the IP address into Linux, to no avail. I've played with the
> network GUI doing everything I can think of, such as putting in the
> route, having the IP established by DHCP, etc. I am on a cable modem,
> which works well. I have 2 PC's hook up to my router and they work
> great, once again, they are Windoze. I have spoken to many people about
> this and have not gotten anywhere, so HELP?????
>
> I would really like to network this PC. The ethernet card I'm using is a
> 3Com 3C905 TX-M, and Linux sees it and says there is nothing wrong with
> it. I can ping 127.0.0.1, but that's as far as I can go. Any ideas? I
> would be eternally greatful for any help in resolving this issue.
>
> I'm getting desperate here, cause I would like to make Linux my main
> O/S. I really like it!
>
> Thanks all!
First thing the loopback interface (127.0.0.1), does NOT require the NIC
to be working, as this could be active without a physical network
interface.
Setup your networking settings on the PC as per the Windows network
settings on the SAME PC (I.e. with the same IP Address/netmask etc., or
as a DHCP client)
The first thing to check whether your interface is up, if you open up a
console and su to root(enter su then press return then enter the root
password) then enter:
ifconfig -a
This should give a list of the active interfaces on your machine, the
ethernet port is eth0; from my pc:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:11:22:33:44
inet addr:192.168.0.31 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::204:76ff:454c:4444/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6805 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4950414 (4.7 Mb) TX bytes:738248 (720.9 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800
(I've changed the HW address and inet6 address)
You should see an eth0 entry and with an ip address.
(BTW There was a problem with FC1 and 3C905 s
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla...buglist=107998 )
If eth0 is not being created, it could be the driver for the card is not
active, if you enter:
dmesg
at the command line and look for lines related to your network card.
If you can paste in the output from ifconfig and dmesg, this will help to
chase down the problem.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Bruce S.
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