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Setting up a Linux box as a LAN server?

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by rickship

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I am new to Linux. Having bought a Red Hat 7.1 on a CD set. I have Linux sytem running OK but cant get any NIC to be recognized by the Operating system. The Box is entirely set up as a Linux Box. I want to connect to the Linux by a LAN using my Windows 98SE Box so that I can do some FTPing, write server side programs using text editors like Pico and run them in Perl. I am doing some courses that would be greatly helped if I could get my systems talking to one another.

I have had set teh box up using GNOME GUI and I have had a look in teh Control panel where I find the eth0 is inactive and lo is active. when I try to activate the eth0 (which i presume iss the default name for my NIC it wont activate. Actually during inital setup of Linux it comes up as failed when bringing up the interface eth0.
Can some one tell me what I have to do.

Many Thanks

Regards
Rick from TASSIE
Down Under.

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by lintadsl

if you post a message from your log file (either /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/message regarding in ETH0, would narrow down some probablities.

It might IRQ conflicted with other devices, wrong IP address setting, or wrong driver you installed.

by rickship

Thanks for your answer :--

"if you post a message from your log file (either /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/message regarding in ETH0, would narrow down some probablities.

It might IRQ conflicted with other devices, wrong IP address setting, or wrong driver you installed"

I am AOK with working out an IRQ conflict in Windows but how do I do it in Linux??? How do I "post a message on my log file"??? There are no other devices operating except a mouse and Keyboard! All the IP addresses and drivers have been installed by Linux how do I change or check that they are right or wrong??

As I said earlier I am completely new with Linux and would like to get a good hold on it is there a good book that can take me through the basics and yet get me going with this LAN??

Regards

Rick From TASSIE Down Under.

by rickship

Thanks for your answer :--

"if you post a message from your log file (either /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/message regarding in ETH0, would narrow down some probablities.

It might IRQ conflicted with other devices, wrong IP address setting, or wrong driver you installed"

I am AOK with working out an IRQ conflict in Windows but how do I do it in Linux??? How do I "post a message on my log file"??? There are no other devices operating except a mouse and Keyboard! All the IP addresses anddrivers have been installed by Linux how do I change or check that they are right or wrong??

As I said earlier I am completely new with Linux and would like to get a good hold on it is there a good book that can take me through the basics and yetget me going with this LAN??

Regards

Rick From TASSIE Down Under.

by lintadsl

Well, there are lots of docs on the net, you can look at it like How-Tos. In the system, type netconf in console, nothing pops up? then type linuxconf. Both netconf and linuxconf are a GUI tools to change some configuration/setting for your services/devices.

>How do I "post a message on my log file"???
Well, I guess manually type all the message from the screen at this time. If you can post the log, would help to find the problem. Try this.
cd /var/log/
more messages |grep eth0
more dmesg |grep eth0

To get the current IP info, type
ifconfig

Please let us know what NIC are you using in the box.
Let's see what you can come up with.

Good luck.

by qnex

First of all, use a command lspci and find you NIC type within that list. In my case it is:
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C (10)
Then see in the Ethernet-HOWTO (/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO) whatdriver does it use (in my case it is "8139too").
Then do a "modprobe " (like: "modprobe 8139too".
Then ifconfig eth0 should give you information you want.
Secondly, consider getting Red Hat 7.2, since it is newer and the one you have may not have support for your NIC. A CD costs around $2 or you can download and burn your own CD image, so it should be no problem for you.

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