network cards won't connect

[Matt Price]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:02:05PM -0400, Alex Janssen wrote:
> Matt Price said the following on 10/23/2005 11:13 AM:
> 
> >
> >THe installer recognized the wifi card and the ibm etherjet -- I
> >didn't try the 3com card atthe time.  But despite the recognition, it
> >could not establish an internet connection no matter how I tried the
> >configuration (dynamic, static, whatever).  Interestingly, the dhcp
> >log on my cheap smc wireless router showed offers made to this machine
> >when dhcp was attempted during installation, but the installer didn't
> >seem to recognize the offers.  
> >
> >
> >all of which is a long and convoluted way of saying "help".  I really
> >need the network on this machine, andwithout it e.g. I can't even
> >download "modconf" to help me understand what modules are being used
> >by these ethernet devices...  
> >
> >so, all help deeply appreciated.  thanks!
> >
> >
> Can you post the output of ifconfig?  Does it show an IP address for 
> your network card?

don't have any mechanism for getting information offo f this machine!
but here is a partial transcription:

eth0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:06:29:92:8B:D9
	 inet addr: 192.168.2.150  Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
	inet6 addr: fe80::206::29ff:fe92:8bd9/64 Scope:Link
	UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
	RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
	RX bytes:1200 (1.1 KiB) TX bytes:4072 (3.9 KiB)
	Interrupt:9 Base address:0x4000

this is the output when I configure the device statically.  When I
configure it with dhcp, the "inet addr" line is missing, otherwise
it's much the same.  Similar results with eth1 (the other ethernet
card).  I've taken the wireless card out for now as there may be other
issues on that piece of hardware.  

does that help any?

matt


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