Re: NIC pronlem with Rdhat 9.

From: Allen McIntosh (mcintosh_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:42:35 GMT

In article <burshm$ua5$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>,
Leigh Bowden <LGBowden@bowdenfamily.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>Network is
>reported as Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection by Win 98 device manager.

So /etc/modules.conf should contain something like

alias eth0 e100

>Originally system booted with problems on the ETH0 device

What were they?

> and whinged about
>iptables and rules etc and FAILED. This seemed to be part of the firewall so
>I've turned all that off and iptables services are off. Boot now showsdevice
>as OK.
>
>Lots of problems with the network interface and shows as inactive with
>redhat-network-config program. Try to activate but doesn't do anything. I
>can't tell if samba is working until this is sorted - I think? I've hunted
>around for config files for eth0 but all those say it will start at boot.
>Ifconfig implies the card is running at HALF DUPLEX would this cause a
>problem?

I'm not sure how you got that information out of ifconfig.

Is the windows box running at 10 or 100 Mbits/sec? Half duplex
would be expected for 10, but not for 100.

"My network card doesn't work" comes up a lot in this and related
newsgroups. Google is your friend.

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