setting up cable modem in RedHat7

[Jahrul Alam]

I have installed Redhat7 on my HP computer. Everything works fine except the networking. My ethernet card is HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100, which came with my computer. I tried with tulip, but didn't work. I see the msg:

Bringingup eth0: Delaying eth0 initialization

Is my driver wrong? What should be the driver for this card?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Eric Ladner]

Try the RealTek RTL8129/8139 driver.

I believe only the 1207C uses the tulip driver.

[Jahrul Alam]

Hi, it helped me a lot but still the system doesn't work.
Here are some output. Thanks in advance for help. Note, I supplied only net device and kernel module to Linuxconf and selected Dhcp. Is there any thing wrong?
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rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0x1400, IRQ 0, 00:00:e8:91:d2:ed.

[root@localhost /root]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:91:D2:ED
BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING 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:100
Base address:0x1400

[root@localhost /root]# ifup eth0
Determining IP information for eth0...Operation failed.
failed.
[root@localhost /root]# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

[Shannon Petry]

Are you running dhcp?
Are you plugged directly into the modem?
Probably yes to both. If so....
Your LAN Card was probably working before. There are some rules to cable modems though that can disable functionality if not done right.
Hopefully your Cable provider sent you an IP address, because it helps.
The hostname they gave you must be the hostname you gave to your PC, and it must be in Lower Case. (Windows converts everything to unicase, so it does not matter to them).
Make sure that your domainname is set, and the servers specified also.
The easiest thing to do is use the "control-panel" to set this up.
If your hostname and domainname do not match, your router will not give your PC access. Unless you have a hub and a way of testing, you can not see your LAN card :-(

Try these, and e-mail me directly if it does not work. I have a mini-faq I started some time ago for comcast cable which may help.

Sincerely,
Shannon

[Jahrul Alam]

My cable modem is working now. But some times it is very slow. I don't know why does it get slow.

Very often, the computer goes frozen when browsing some sites. This type of problem I got under Windows98 and so I switched to Linux. Is RedHat7.0 unstable or something else is wrong.

It's hard to realize for one what the problem is? Now I am little afraid of going to internet from Linux because I only have to plug off to get back the computer. No key/command works when it is frozen.

Thanks in advance for help

[George Wolanin]

I am experiencing the same problem..

Determining IP information for eth0....Operation failed.

Would you be able to assit me in setting up this network card? I have the same exact computer as you have HP 8660C with the Accton 1207D fast ethernet card. I have been working on this for the past 3 weeks and I can finally get Linux to notice my NIC card on boot, but I still get the message stated above. I am using the network kernel rtl8139.o

Please Help....I would like to get my roadrunner to work on Linux 7, if you are wondering, this is my first time installing Linux on a PC.

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Keith Jackson]

I have had similar problems, except with WinLinux 2000
(Linux 2.2.13). I am using the rtl8139 driver (as a
module) for my EN1207D-TX card. I get the error:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable

I have tried:
1. cold boot
2. in /etc/modules.conf, putting:
alias eth0 rtl8139
options eth0 -o rtl8139 io=0x2400 irq=9

(also with irq=7) but it complains that io=
and irq= are invalid parameters

Windoze reports that the ethernet card, video
card, and a couple other things share IRQ9,
but dmesg reports the card is IRQ0. As I
understand it, an IRQ setting of 0 is used to
indicate a device without a fixed IRQ, which
should be assigned dynamically by probing.
In the BIOS, I disabled the parallel port,
which was using IRQ7, thinking this might
free up an IRQ. No such luck.

Some possibly relevant information from dmesg:

PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=2411
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

...
rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0x2400, IRQ 0, 00:10:b5:00:51:47.

The part about unknown IDE puzzles me. It correctly reports my CD-RW, DVD-ROM, floppy, and hard drives.
The modem and Riptide sound card are on one card
and neither one is apparently supported.

[Kenneth Clark]

I have a HP Pav XE3744 w/WinME and RH 6.2 using an @Home cable modem in Athens, GA which uses dhcp. Here's what I did. FIRST!!!
Enter BIOS setup and CHANGE the O/S entry to "other". It should be on Windows98/2000 or something. Additionally clear the ESCD. I use a Linksys LNE100TX PCI NIC with the tulip.o module that came with it on diskette

I had problems with ifconfig only seeing lo, yet ifconfig eth0 would see the card. cat/proc/pci showed the IRQ for the card at 0, which WAS how PnP would see then assign out of BIOS...i think...

Nonetheless, as soon as I changed O/S to "other" and dumped ESCD in BIOS, saved the settings and exited, it worked. Upon boot into linux, the system sat for approx. 25 seconds on "initializing eth0' and then everything smoothly went through...

Yeah!!!