Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-14 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I finally got it working. I decided to copy all the DNS settings that 7.3 > automatically puts into the network setting and I now can access the net. It > could be the DHCP router but can anyone explain why 7.3 works with the DHCP > router and 8.0 won't. That makes sense. If DHCP is set up prope

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-13 Thread Edward Dekkers
> i did assign static IP to it which allowed me to activte it but it will not > let me access the net thru the router though At least that's a step further no? Have you set the router as gateway address? --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing lis

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-13 Thread Nifty Fredo
I finally got it working. I decided to copy all the DNS settings that 7.3 automatically puts into the network setting and I now can access the net. It could be the DHCP router but can anyone explain why 7.3 works with the DHCP router and 8.0 won't. i did assign static IP to it which allowed m

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-13 Thread Nifty Fredo
i did assign static IP to it which allowed me to activte it but it will not let me access the net thru the router though > i haven't tried manually assigning an IP as i would have to change the whole > network to static IPs Not true, A mixed fixed/variable ip network is what we use here.

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
> i haven't tried manually assigning an IP as i would have to change the whole > network to static IPs Not true, A mixed fixed/variable ip network is what we use here. Anything above 192.168.0.10 is dynamic, everything below we use for static addressing. I'd suggest you find an empty ip

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Nifty Fredo
I experienced the exact same problems but I am using a D-Link Ethernet to USB converter instead of a network card. I manually assigned the IP which got me an IP address and then I couldn't resolve any DNS until I manually loaded the ISP's DNS Server. This worked using DHCP under RH 7.1.

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Nifty Fredo
stopping iptables and/or ipchains didn't help > already tried disabling that. didn't work. i assume it was disabled as next > time you look it is on high. i read another item about this always showing > up as high. i guess one way to find out would be to uninstall the firewall. HHmm. 'ser

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Jack Sexton
I experienced the exact same problems but I am using a D-Link Ethernet to USB converter instead of a network card. I manually assigned the IP which got me an IP address and then I couldn't resolve any DNS until I manually loaded the ISP's DNS Server. This worked using DHCP under RH 7.1. --

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
> already tried disabling that. didn't work. i assume it was disabled as next > time you look it is on high. i read another item about this always showing > up as high. i guess one way to find out would be to uninstall the firewall. HHmm. 'service iptables stop' and/or 'service ipchains stop' sh

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Nifty Fredo
already tried disabling that. didn't work. i assume it was disabled as next time you look it is on high. i read another item about this always showing up as high. i guess one way to find out would be to uninstall the firewall. > I am using a dhcp broadband router which assigns IPs and this wo

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I am using a dhcp broadband router which assigns IPs and this works with > all versions of windows, RH 7.3 but not with RH 8.0 Is the default RedHat 8.0 Firewall blocking DHCP requests? Just another guess. --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Jerry Sloan
Nifty said: > > I am using a dhcp broadband router which assigns IPs and this works with > all versions of windows, RH 7.3 but not with RH 8.0 > > > > > Has anyone had a problem with activating eth0 in version 8. I have an > Aopen > > ethernet card with the Realtek RTL8139 chipset which works ok

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Nifty Fredo
I am using a dhcp broadband router which assigns IPs and this works with all versions of windows, RH 7.3 but not with RH 8.0 > Has anyone had a problem with activating eth0 in version 8. I have an Aopen > ethernet card with the Realtek RTL8139 chipset which works ok in 7.3. I am > using a br

Re: network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Has anyone had a problem with activating eth0 in version 8. I have an Aopen > ethernet card with the Realtek RTL8139 chipset which works ok in 7.3. I am > using a broadband router which assigns ip addresses and this works fine with > 7.3 as i just install the OS and i am on the net. with 8.0 it

network card problems in RH 8

2002-11-12 Thread Nifty Fredo
Has anyone had a problem with activating eth0 in version 8. I have an Aopen ethernet card with the Realtek RTL8139 chipset which works ok in 7.3. I am using a broadband router which assigns ip addresses and this works fine with 7.3 as i just install the OS and i am on the net. with 8.0 it fail