There are a number of reasons: 1. DHCP not running/enabled. 2. Is the machine physicall connected at both ends (plugged in securely to eth0 and into hub/switch?) 3. Did you set up or migrate networking during the update from RH8 to RH9? 4. Run ifconfig to see if you get any output for eth0. 5. if not try ifconfig eth0 <your IP here>.
It really sounds like a physical connection issue. BobB -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Farschad Torabi Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Activating ETH0 Edward, i tried "ifup eth0" and the message is something like this: "Determining IP information for eth09... failed; no link present. Check cable?? what's up?? i am not too familiar with UNIX environment :^P and where is the log file?? this message appears on the screen!! Farschad At 06:41 PM 7/17/2003 +0800, you wrote: >Farschad Torabi wrote: > >>Hi, >>I have a PiV pc with a 3COM LAN card. the model of the card is >>3c905c-tx-m and it worked >>properly with RH8.0 as well as RH9.0 longs ago. but now, i reinstalled >>the RH9 but it messaged >>me that "unable to activate ETH0, check cable?" >>what's wrong?? what should i do?? >>i don't know if i return to RH8.0 whether this problem is diminished or not! >>thanks >>Farschad > >Farschad, firstly - the RedHat version number is 9, not 9.0. > >Secondly, the easiest thing to do is run 'ifup eth0', then check the >message log and see if there is any more information. You usually get more >information in the message log than at start-up. > >Regards, >Ed. > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list Farschad Torabi Ph. D. Student Department of Mechanical Eng. University of Tehran Tehran / Iran [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
