Is my NIC working?

[dazed_and_confused]

Hi all,

I'm having great difficulties trying to use my DSL connection under RH 6.1. I'm using rp-pppoe from Roaring Penguin but all I get is a time out when I try to start the connection.

I think the problem may be my NIC. At boot, it fails to load interface eth0 BUT when I enter ifconfig eth0 after it boots, I get whats seems to be the appropriate response:

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:91:EC:AC

and also a few more lines. No error messages.

My system is an HP Pavilion with and HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 NIC and it is installed with the rtl1839 driver under RH6.1. RH did that by itself.

Any thoughts?

Thanks all,

dac

[FunkyBlueStick]

That HWAddr number is only your NIC's mac address. It's the unique identifier number that is burned into every nic and its the basis on which most modern LAN's work. As for the problem, it's more likely to be the dhcp client that you're using, and I'm assuming you do get your IP via DHCP, which can resolved fairly easily by upgrading!

Have fun!!!

[dazed_and_confused]

Upgrading what? The distro or just DHCP?

How?

aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!1

[veloctTX]

try this to see if it comes up.

# ifup eth0

then do ifconfig and see if it shows the NIC up. Do you have the DHCP client running?