dhcp enabled, can't activate ethernet

[ruggersway]

I have recently reinstalled FC4 on my laptop and am trying to get the network working. I have a cable modem running through a router running dhcp. I have no problems getting on using this machine with xp (dual boot), but FC4 fails at ethernet initialization during boot. I have tried manually inputting DNS entries, bringing eth down then up, restarting networking services...

The only time I am able to activate eth1 (eth0 is wireless and is set to manually activate) is if I assign a static, which won't get me on the network. I ran into this in my initial installation and got frustrated filtering through forums for answers that didn't work so I installed OpenSuSe 10, same problem plus sound issues, so I went back to FC and am determined to get it working.

I hope someone can give me some good advice here. I also have sound problems, and I haven't looked at wireless connectivity yet, one problem at a time...

FC correctly identifies my NIC, loopback ping works, but nothing else. I will try to provide any information requested as quickly as possible. Thanks in advance for any help you provide.

[ruggersway]

I've tried a few other things and still no luck. I read another post and saw something about it making a difference if you install with the network cable plugged in, and booting with it in rather than not. I unplugged everything during the installation because the usb mouse was causing the installation to hang, so I unplugged everything to avoid problems.

Would that make a difference? Also, in making changes to the configuration on the network controller I went to restart the network services. Which wouldn't work. Could not stop or start network services. I also tried to restart netplugd which wouldn't restart either. Is this something that is getting set in boot and perhaps disabled? I noticed that when I shutdown and brought the system up again later I got plenty of activity on my router but the system still failed to activate the ethernet controller.

Frustrated here, any help would be appreciated.
-Rugger

[ruggersway]

I'm posting some more information about my laptop I hope some of this will stand out and give someone an idea what needs to be done to get me up and going. I would appreciate any help that can be offered.

#dmesg | grep eth0
eth0: resetting device...
eth0: uploading firmware...
eth0: could not upload firmware ('is13890')
eth0: islpci_reset: failure

#dmesg | grep eth1
eth1: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd800, IRQ 5, 00:03:OD:15:2E:96.
eth1: Media Link Off
eth1: Media Link Off
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

#dmesg | grep wlan0
no output from this one.

[root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 28933 1
lp 13001 0
parport 40585 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 29253 2
rfcomm 42333 0
l2cap 30661 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 56133 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 167813 1
pcmcia 29025 4
video 15941 0
button 6609 0
battery 9413 0
ac 4805 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 268097 8
ohci1394 41353 0
ieee1394 304441 1 ohci1394
yenta_socket 21449 2
rsrc_nonstatic 12737 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 50909 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ohci_hcd 26849 0
ehci_hcd 41037 0
shpchp 94405 0
i2c_sis96x 5445 0
i2c_core 21569 1 i2c_sis96x
snd_intel8x0m 19589 0
snd_intel8x0 34689 1
snd_ac97_codec 75961 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_dummy 3653 0
snd_seq_oss 37057 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9153 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 62289 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8781 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 51185 0
snd_mixer_oss 17857 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 100169 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_ oss
snd_timer 33605 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 57157 12
snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_ oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_o ss,soundcore 10913 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9669 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
sis900 21697 0
prism54 56013 0
joydev 9601 0
dm_snapshot 17413 0
dm_zero 2113 0
dm_mirror 26029 0
ext3 132553 2
jbd 86233 1 ext3
dm_mod 58101 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror


[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:B4:00:00:00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
File: /media/SANDRIVE/outputs Page 2 of 2
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x8000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0D:15:2E:96
inet6 addr: fe80::203:dff:fe15:2e96/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd800
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:1429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1496082 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:1496082 (1.4 MiB)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@localhost ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo