Hello everyone, I have Fedora Core2 Test 2 installed in my computer. It is detecting my LAN card ( NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter). But I am not able to activate my LAN card. The LAN card is working fine b'cos I am able to access LAN in windows. I have no idea what is the problem. I'll be very grateful if somebody can help me. Thanks, dcffcd
dcf fcd wrote:
Hello everyone, I have Fedora Core2 Test 2 installed in my computer. It is detecting my LAN card ( NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter). But I am not able to activate my LAN card. The LAN card is working fine b'cos I am able to access LAN in windows. I have no idea what is the problem. I'll be very grateful if somebody can help me. Thanks, dcffcd
What is detecting your LAN card?
Try
/sbin/modprobe forcedeth
as root. Than you shall be able to do /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
You may need to substitute eth1 for eth1 if you have more than one network adapter. You may also need to pass more options to ifconfig if you are not using DHCP. Read man infconfig for more info.
If you your network works now, add
alias eth0 forcedeth
to your /etc/modprobe.conf and the module will be loaded on each boot.
Greets,
//Andro
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:02, dcf fcd wrote:
Hello everyone, I have Fedora Core2 Test 2 installed in my computer. It is detecting my LAN card ( NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter). But I am not able to activate my LAN card. The LAN card is working fine b'cos I am able to access LAN in windows. I have no idea what is the problem. I'll be very grateful if somebody can help me. Thanks, dcffcd
Hi There, run lspci and the lsmod on the command line as root (su -) comapred the output of lspci for your lan and see if there is the correct module loaded. If not cd into the /usr/src/linux/drivers dir or the /lib/modules/ dir and look for the corect driver, use modprobe driver to test. If you run ifconfig does it have an IP address. also check the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? file it should look like this:
You could just use mine as a sample and edit according to you network:
# Broadcom Corporation|BCM4401 100Base-T DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.2.255 HWADDR=00:C0:9F:3A:85:89 IPADDR=192.168.2.5 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.2.0 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet
Then run service network restart and try again. If you still can't win try service iptables off if that fixes it the you need to setup your iptables That quite easy for ping you use icmp, nfs uses udp and most others use tcp then add a line like this to your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file
-A INPUT -m icmp -p icmp -i eth0 -j ACCEPT and to ping out -A OUTPUT -m icmp -p icmp -o eth0 -j ACCEPT you can also use it for a specific service like nfs -A INPUT -i eth0 -m udp -p udp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -m tcp -p tcp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT
That because nfs actually uses tcp and udp, playaround with it. in the /etc/services file you find the ports to services mappings good luck!
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:02, dcf fcd wrote:
Hello everyone, I have Fedora Core2 Test 2 installed in my computer. It is detecting my LAN card ( NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter). But I am not able to activate my LAN card. The LAN card is working fine b'cos I am able to access LAN in windows. I have no idea what is the problem. I'll be very grateful if somebody can help me. Thanks, dcffcd
Can you describe how do you activate your card and what messages you see?
Pavel.
Hi, Thanks for all the tips. But there is no change yet.One thing though. I tried activating the lan card from the terminal using /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up and it worked the first time. I had also removed all my firewalls before doing this. The lan card got activated and I was able to connect to the net. After that I rebooted and its gone again. And none of the methods suggested worked.And all my other settings are fine the network scripts file is also ok. Please suggest a way out. Greets dcffcd
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:32:47 +0530, dcf fcd dcffcd@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone, I have Fedora Core2 Test 2 installed in my computer. It is detecting my LAN card ( NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter). But I am not able to activate my LAN card. The LAN card is working fine b'cos I am able to access LAN in windows. I have no idea what is the problem. I'll be very grateful if somebody can help me. Thanks, dcffcd
dcf fcd wrote:
Hi, Thanks for all the tips. But there is no change yet.One thing though. I tried activating the lan card from the terminal using /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up and it worked the first time. I had also
In order for you to be able to ifconfig the connection up, you must have the proper ethernet modules loaded, or at least configured in /etc/modprobe.conf. That's good. That's 50% of the battle. Now, why can't you use system-config-network to configure the (now working) ethernet card to active at boot time? [From the GUI, click the Fedora -> System Tools -> Network Device Control From there, select your ethernet device and push the "Configure..." button, (supply your root password, if necessary), select your device in the Network Configuration window, and push the "Edit" button in the toolbar. Check the box that reads: "Activate device when the computer starts"]
removed all my firewalls before doing this. The lan card got activated and I was able to connect to the net. After that I rebooted and its gone again. And none of the methods suggested worked.And all my other settings are fine the network scripts file is also ok. Please suggest a way out.
In order for you to be able to ifconfig the connection up, you must have the proper ethernet modules loaded, or at least configured in /etc/modprobe.conf. That's good. That's 50% of the battle. Now, why can't you use system-config-network to configure the (now working) ethernet card to active at boot time? [From the GUI, click the Fedora -> System Tools -> Network Device Control From there, select your ethernet device and push the "Configure..." button, (supply your root password, if necessary), select your device in the Network Configuration window, and push the "Edit" button in the toolbar. Check the box that reads: "Activate device when the computer starts"]
You also might want to check 'allow all users to enable & disable the device' option especially if there are multiple NICs on the machine. This is especially useful on laptops where there is both a wireless & wired NIC, I've got mine set up to start neither on boot since having the default eth interface unavailable on boot will cause a significant delay on boot. I use the network device control applet to bring up/down as required.
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