Trouble determining IP info

[maci]

Hello.

I'm somewhat new to Linux and Fedora. I am dual booting Win XP and Fedora Core 5. Everything is working great except I am having trouble connecting to the internet.

My sound and network card are integrated to the motherboard. The sound is working fine but I am having trouble connecting to the internet. Under the Hardware tab in Network Configuration (System > Administration > Network> Hardware) my device is "nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet." When I attempt to activate the device in the "Devices" tab a dialog reads "Determining IP information for eth0...", I got the same message when booting into Fedora and the process "failed". My motherboard is MSI K9N Neo-F (Socket AM2) nForce 550 Chipset.
I connect to the internet through a cat5 cable connected from my internal network device to my router, the router establishes the connection to the internet via DSL.

[sentry]

What's the output of lspci and ifconfig?

[maci]

What's the output of lspci and ifconfig?

How do I find the output of lspci and ifconfig? Are these commands entered into the terminal? When I enter "lspci" and "ifconfig" the response is "command not found." Thanks for your help.

[ptsz]

try in a terminal:

/sbin/lscpi

or

/sbin/ifconfig

[Gescape]

hi maci.
I suppose that you can get ip etc... in XP. I wrote already about this kind of problem because I got is as well and I've got similar sys I mean dualboot FC+XP.
When you log in to FC try
dhclient -r
dhclient -I 01mac_address eth0

It helped me. But I have to do this every time I reboot between systems.

Unfortunatelly I have to do from time to time same in XP:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

It works in my config. But I still have no idea how to set it up permanently :(

[bitrain]

hi maci.
I suppose that you can get ip etc... in XP. I wrote already about this kind of problem because I got is as well and I've got similar sys I mean dualboot FC+XP.
When you log in to FC try
dhclient -r
dhclient -I 01mac_address eth0

It helped me. But I have to do this every time I reboot between systems.

Unfortunatelly I have to do from time to time same in XP:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

It works in my config. But I still have no idea how to set it up permanently :(
You can make a script and let it run every time you boot into FC. Not a really good solution, but it should work. If you are the only user you can put it into your ~/.bash_profile.

[Gescape]

bitrain,

Thank you. Anyway I would like to find a reason why there is a conflict between dhcp clients in FC and XP when you use dualboot config. Whay when one sys obtained lease from dhcp serv, another have a problem to get it. I read already that there is some difference between client in those systems, and I know that is posible to set id_client up for FC to use same as Win's id, but not sure how to achieve this in FC, because I don't know exactly how dhclient works in FC. I could not find dhclient.conf in my system where it should be :( Posted already this problem - not real solutions.

[maci]

Gescape, thanks for your time but after entering the commands I had no luck. Do I just enter the commands then test the internet? I attempted to go to a site but had no luck then tried activating the connection eth0. No luck as well.

The output are as follows:

/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:05.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0370 (rev a2)
00:06.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0374 (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0374 (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0378 (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0375 (rev a2)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0377 (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0392 (rev a1)



/sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:17:77:AA:AF
inet6 addr: fe80::216:17ff:fe77:aaaf/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3672 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3672 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4253835 (4.0 MiB) TX bytes:4253835 (4.0 MiB)

[Shobhit_Jain]

hope u r trying 'ifconfig' and 'lspci' in su mode...

Use "su - " the "-" is imp.

[Gescape]

Of course :)
I am newbe... (that's my opinion and not only probably) but I use FC&RH a while.
I know important commands :)
Just luck of conf&admin skills yet.

[cmanns]

I have same problem cept I cant get it to work on a single boot, looks like no more interweb for me =[

[noobie_jhay]

hi maci, just a thought... when u are booting in windows xp, is it set to obtain an ip address via dhcp? if that's the case, then i guess you could try this in your fc5:

go to System > Administration > Network

then, it will ask you for your root password so just enter it... then...

look for your ethernet device there (usually, it is stated as eth0 or eth1), anyway, just try to check. i would guess that it would be disabled there.. but before you try to enable it, try this first:

select your ethernet device (eth0 usually...) and then click on Edit > then, on the General tab, you could choose to enable the device on startup, and just check on the other options there... and after that, click on the option there that says Automatically Obtain IP Address Settings with: and then select DHCP. then, put a check on the option that says Automatically Obtain DNS Information from Provider.

after you have done these things, just click OK and go on to the first screen and enable you network device....

well, hope this helps!