Re: problem starting up Fedora on an IBM Thinkpad 600E using Xircom card

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 06/01/04

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    Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:21:07 GMT

    On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 01:58:31 +0000, ezjab wrote:

    > I'm reposting a thread from back in April. I made a little progress back
    > then but bottom line is that I still can not get Redhat Fedora working
    > on my laptop. It looks like the os is finding the Xircom card, but the
    > ethernet connection is not working properly. I would appreciate and
    > additional help I can get on this item. Details are provided below.

    <snip>

    > % cat ifcfg-eth0
    > DEVICE=eth0
    > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
    > ONBOOT=yes
    > TYPE=Ethernet

    <snip>

    > PING 192.168.1.101 (192.168.1.101) 56(84) bytes of data.

    It seems that maybe your not getting the gateway and DNS info from your
    DHCP server. Try adding 'GATEWAY=<the_DHCP_Server_IP_address>' (as root)
    to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and adding the DNS info from
    the DHCP Server to /etc/resolv.conf manually if needed, example below;

    $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
    ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
    nameserver 67.36.128.26
    nameserver 206.141.192.60 

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