NICs will not activate

[jpetri]

Hi, I have a fresh installation of FC3 64bit and neither of my 2 onboard NICs will activate.

-in winXP they both wotk fine and I connect to the internet with a Siemens ADSL modem (my friend is using the same modem with FC2 without problems(

i've searched through the forum and tried several things out with no luck.

eth0 is Nvidia (forcedeth driver) and eth1 is a Marvell Yukon (fc3 correctly detected this)

first i deactivated the firewall ("service iptables stop")
-same problem

/sbin/ifconfig gives me this:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:EA:71:92:11
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fe71:9211/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2430 (2.3 KiB)
Interrupt:12 Base address:0xe000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:EA:71:92:13
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fe71:9213/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2006 (1.9 KiB)
Interrupt:5 Memory:fc000000-0

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:3474 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3474 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3773703 (3.5 MiB) TX bytes:3773703 (3.5 MiB)


dhclient eth0 gives me this:

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:ea:71:92:11
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:ea:71:92:11
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

-dhclient for eth1 gives the same results basically....

-ip v.6 is not activated...

Anybody here have any ideas how i might proceed?

thanks,

jack

[parish]

I have a similar problem bringing up the network for my nvidia eth0/forcedeth with any of the following:
service network start
dhclient directly
ifup eth0

However, I am able to start the network up using:
service NetworkManager start

Give it a try an let me know if it works.

Daniel

[jpetri]

However, I am able to start the network up using:
service NetworkManager start

Give it a try an let me know if it works.

Daniel

Thanks, but no luck with that either....

[Dallows]

I can't get my linksys nic to activate either. Are you running a dual-boot system? Are the two nics onboard or pci? I think I might know the answer, let me know.

[jpetri]

Well, as i said before this was a fresh FC3 install, and so last night i downloaded all the updates in windows, burned them on a cd and updated -on reboot both NICs now work fine! -go figure...

Anyhow, thanks for the help!

[imdeemvp]

I connect to the internet with a Siemens ADSL modem (my friend is using the same modem with FC2 without problems(How are you setting up your dsl connection? Do you have the needed info and are you using a router or you just connect to internet from dsl modem to nic? If that is the case this is how to do a DSL connection. (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=19352)