>>>>> "aam" == Abdullah Al-Molah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
aam> Am having problem getting my linux box with RedHat version 5.0
aam> to work, I finally got my ethernet card to get configured after
aam> I patched and recompiled kernel 2.0.33!, my NIC is 3com
aam> 3c905B-TX.
aam> In Windows 95 OSR2, under Network, configured the TCP/IP driver
aam> to obtain an IP automatically and I checked the DHCP option,
aam> and in addition I supplied two DNS IP addresses!.
aam> now in Linux am all out of ideas, since I have already put the
aam> same options, I am using with windows95, in X windows, I
aam> clicked on the network tab, entered the same host and domain
aam> names, both DNS IPs, and I created an interface called "eth0",
aam> and I configured it so it will start at boot, and enabled the
aam> DHCP option, but now it will take long time at boot time when
aam> it shows DHCP, but after a while, it will say failed!
We can't tell from this if the card is working or not. When the
system has booted, has the card been recognised? What does "ifconfig
-a" produce? What does "lsmod" produce? What is in
/proc/interrupts, and in /etc/conf.modules? And when DHCP fails,
what *exactly* does it say?
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