My linux box and nic problem

azev

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I installed rehat9 with everything on it last night. This morning, I notice that the nic card is recoqnized by redhat, but there is no light on the switch. I check the status and it says that it is on, but still there are no light on the nic card. I check on hardware browser, the computer list the nic card as " Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100"
Manufacture is Linksys and driver is tulip. Any ideas hot to get this thing to work ?

Thanks
 

Spyro

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The card isn't really usable until after you've got it configured. I'm not really to familiar with red hat but I'm quite sure that they offer some kind of configuration tool to help you get it set up. If you think that its already configured, then get to the CLI and type "ifconfig eth0 up" and see if that works.
 

azev

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Redhat installation had a section to setup nic cards. I set it up with static ip and the os seems to recognize the nic card and the status seems to be up and running, but there are no light on my swith or on the nic card it self.
I did "ifconfig eth0 up" and it is not a recognized command...
 

Spyro

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Originally posted by: azev
Redhat installation had a section to setup nic cards. I set it up with static ip and the os seems to recognize the nic card and the status seems to be up and running, but there are no light on my swith or on the nic card it self.
I did "ifconfig eth0 up" and it is not a recognized command...

:eek: Hmmm, okay, I would now like to request support from a higher power, because I've been using XP on a laptop for the last two weeks and I dont have a *nix box around to play with. O.K. instead of that just type "man ifconfig" to get yourself started, and if the manual entry isn't around then check whatever kind of network config tool that red hat ships with, since I'm not at all familiar with the latest version of Redhat thats pretty much my best effort. I could have sworn that was the right command though....
 

Priit

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Type "ifconfig" (or "/sbin/ifconfig" if it's not in the path) to see what kind of network interfaces are up and running. If you see only loopback there, you can try "ifup eth0" (ifup is also in sbin folder). If you have it configured right and it goes up, everything should be ok. You can also try graphical network configurator under "control panel" (at least RH 7.3 have it, very nice tool to help out beginners).