Network Device doesn't work

Hello,

I have a problem with my network card. During installation (Suse), I got
some message like: Cannot find network using "site" as domain, this can be
changed later. (Something like this or similiar). Anyway, I want to use DHCP
(is working fine for other servers), during start up I get the message:

No configuration found for eth0
unusedWaiting for mandatory devices eth-id-00:0c:29:15:0d:c7
[...]
eth-id-00:0c:29:15:0d:c7 No interface found
failed Setting up service network ............. failed
exit status of (network) is (7)

If I enter the yast configuration, it says that for device
eth-id-00:0c:29:15:0d:c7 there is a configuration for DHCP.

ping localhost and ping 127.0.0.1 are working fine

ping linux (which is the hostname) is working, BUT the IP address is
127.0.0.2 and is taken from the hosts file, the entry is generated by suse
automatically. If I remove the entry ping linux doesn't work.

ifconfig only shows the "lo" device

Any idea what might be wrong or what I could test?

(Just some additional information: The installation runs on VM Ware, but
this shouldn't matter I hope....)

Regards,
Jochen

Hi,

just some more information

/usr/sbin/dhcpd-test eth0 delivers some output:

dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:0c:29:7e:fd:9b
IPADDR=10.33.166.184
[..]

and so on. I understand this tool that it asks the DHCP server what the
reply would be but doesn't use this information, am I right? So this is only
a prove that the connection to the DHCP server and the server itself are
working.

Regards,
Jochen

Jochen Rundholz wrote:
> (Just some additional information: The installation runs on VM Ware,
> but this shouldn't matter I hope....)
Do you think that it's no difference between
a _real_ NIC attached to LAN
and a _virtual_ software-emulated network "device"?


> Any idea what might be wrong or what I could test?

First, you should get some basic knowledge on networking:
IP-level semantic, IP address space structure, routing, names resolving.
Try to find and read some tutorial in your native language.

After that, try to learn how your version of VMWare does networking.


FYI: VMWare is probably not the best tool to run Linux on Windows.
You can try coLinux http://www.colinux.org/




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Jochen,

How do you have your VMWare setup (and which version)? VMWare allows the
networking subsystem to operate in three different modes.

Host-only - (Could you be doing this?)
Bridged - (You probably want this.)
NAT - (This will do as well.)

How is yours setup?

I do agree with Innocenti Maresin, you may want to consider colinux.
There are some advantages.

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> Do you think that it's no difference between
> a _real_ NIC attached to LAN
> and a _virtual_ software-emulated network "device"?

Did I write this? No I just said it has to work anyway. By the way VM Ware
is running in bridged mode.

> First, you should get some basic knowledge on networking:
> IP-level semantic, IP address space structure, routing, names resolving.
> Try to find and read some tutorial in your native language.

Oh, could you please explain to me what an IP address is? Hey, most people
in this group probably have a better knowledge about networking than me,
admitted. But don't you think that it is possible to answer ANY and EVERY
question with "read some tutorial"? Is this the answer you get and you
desire? Save your and my time and don't send a reply like this.

> FYI: VMWare is probably not the best tool to run Linux on Windows.
> You can try coLinux http://www.colinux.org/

Not possible in my case, since I need to exchange the image with others (yes
you could answer that THEORETICALLY the other might use colinux instead of
vmware as well), may be the next time.

Regards,
Jochen

"Jochen Rundholz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:cpisjf$rk8$(E-Mail Removed):

>
>> Do you think that it's no difference between
>> a _real_ NIC attached to LAN
>> and a _virtual_ software-emulated network "device"?
>
> Did I write this? No I just said it has to work anyway. By the way VM
> Ware is running in bridged mode.
>
>> First, you should get some basic knowledge on networking:
>> IP-level semantic, IP address space structure, routing, names
>> resolving. Try to find and read some tutorial in your native
>> language.
>
> Oh, could you please explain to me what an IP address is?

An IP address is a 32-bit integer that uniquely identifies a specific
node/computer/system on the Internet. It is typically displayed as a
"dotted quad" notation; 255.255.255.255 where each of the four bytes can
hold a value of 0-255 inclusive.

> > Oh, could you please explain to me what an IP address is?
>
> An IP address is a 32-bit integer that uniquely identifies a specific
> node/computer/system on the Internet. It is typically displayed as a
> "dotted quad" notation; 255.255.255.255 where each of the four bytes can
> hold a value of 0-255 inclusive.

Thanks for the answer, but this time I just was ironic to express that I am
not a complete jerk and that not everyone can first get a network expert
before one can solve their problems.

But I really appriciate that you gave an answer!

Regards,
Jochen

Jochen Rundholz wrote:
>>>Oh, could you please explain to me what an IP address is?
>>
>>An IP address is a 32-bit integer that uniquely identifies a specific
>>node/computer/system on the Internet. It is typically displayed as a
>>"dotted quad" notation; 255.255.255.255 where each of the four bytes can
>>hold a value of 0-255 inclusive.
>
>
> Thanks for the answer, but this time I just was ironic to express that I am
> not a complete jerk and that not everyone can first get a network expert
> before one can solve their problems.
>
> But I really appriciate that you gave an answer!
>
> Regards,
> Jochen
>
>
Jochen
Which Linux version are you using ? I had a network with a desktop, two
laptops each with a pcmcia card.WIreless. I was using a Wireless
basestation, Microsoft MN500. I installed Mandrake 7 on one of the
laptops but I could never get it recognizd by the base. What did I do
worng? Was Mandrake7 too old? I input all the correct values eth0 etc.
But maybe I needed a newer Linux huh?
walter

> Which Linux version are you using ? I had a network with a desktop, two
> laptops each with a pcmcia card.WIreless. I was using a Wireless
> basestation, Microsoft MN500. I installed Mandrake 7 on one of the
> laptops but I could never get it recognizd by the base. What did I do
> worng? Was Mandrake7 too old? I input all the correct values eth0 etc.
> But maybe I needed a newer Linux huh?

The point is that some people here are even not keen to tell you which logs
files are important and should help. I don't know it myself. In the hope of
having the right one I posted every detail I could find.

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:22:14 GMT, Elliot Rosewater wrote:

> I installed Mandrake 7 on one of the
> laptops but I could never get it recognizd by the base. What did I do
> worng? Was Mandrake7 too old?

Considering 9.1 is no longer supported and you can get 10.1,
I would say so.