trouble getting an Internet connection

After advice from this newsgroup, I installed Fedora Core 5, fired up
my machine, but failed to get an Internet connection on my x86 machine.
I have verified that the cable is sound and the light turns on when I
plug into the back of my network card. Below is the result of running
ifconfig -a as root. Any suggestions on what a solution may be?

> ifconfig -a

eth0: Link encap: Ethernet HWAddr 0A:0C:F1:AE:54:c2
BROADCAST 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)
Base address: 0xac00 Memory:ff800000 - ff820000

eth1: Link encap: Ethernet HRWAddr 52:54:00:ED:57:65
BROADCAST 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: 17 Base address: 0xb400

l0: Link encap: Local loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 16436 Metric:1
RX Packets: 1622 errors:0 dropped:0, overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
RX bytes: 2866773 (2.7 MiB) TX Bytes: 2866773 (2.7MiB)

sit0: Link encap: IPv6 - in - IPv4
NOARP MTU: 1480 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 (0.0b) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)

Thanks, - Dave

<laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote in message
news:1158116965.872284.25230@p79g2000cwp.googlegro ups.com

> After advice from this newsgroup, I installed Fedora Core 5, fired up
> my machine, but failed to get an Internet connection on my x86
> machine. I have verified that the cable is sound and the light turns
> on when I plug into the back of my network card. Below is the result
> of running ifconfig -a as root. Any suggestions on what a solution
> may be?
>
>> ifconfig -a
>
> eth0: Link encap: Ethernet HWAddr 0A:0C:F1:AE:54:c2
> BROADCAST 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)
> Base address: 0xac00 Memory:ff800000 - ff820000

There's no IP address assigned.

ynotssor wrote:
> <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1158116965.872284.25230@p79g2000cwp.googlegro ups.com
>
>> After advice from this newsgroup, I installed Fedora Core 5, fired up
>> my machine, but failed to get an Internet connection on my x86
>> machine. I have verified that the cable is sound and the light turns
>> on when I plug into the back of my network card. Below is the result
>> of running ifconfig -a as root. Any suggestions on what a solution
>> may be?
>>
>>> ifconfig -a
>> eth0: Link encap: Ethernet HWAddr 0A:0C:F1:AE:54:c2
>> BROADCAST 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)
>> Base address: 0xac00 Memory:ff800000 - ff820000
>
> There's no IP address assigned.

Worse than that, it's not even up. None of the interfaces in the
original post are up.

Are any of them even configured?

On 12 Sep 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<1158116965.872284.25230@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups. com>,
laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

>Below is the result of running ifconfig -a as root.

>eth0: Link encap: Ethernet HWAddr 0A:0C:F1:AE:54:c2

[compton ~]$ etherwhois 0A:0C:F1
Non-existent address as of Aug 20 19:02:31 MST 2006 OUI file
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
[compton ~]$

> BROADCAST 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)
> Base address: 0xac00 Memory:ff800000 - ff820000

No IRQ either. Your configuration isn't talking to the card.

>eth1: Link encap: Ethernet HRWAddr 52:54:00:ED:57:65

[compton ~]$ etherwhois 52:54:00
Non-existent address as of Aug 20 19:02:31 MST 2006 OUI file
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
[compton ~]$

> BROADCAST 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: 17 Base address: 0xb400

No cigar either.

Let's start with the information you didn't supply. What kind of network
cards are these. What is in your modules configuration file (probably
/etc/modules.conf or /etc/modules)? What kind of driver are you trying
to use (see /var/log/messages at boot time)? You state that this is an
x86 box, but don't mention the type (laptop, desktop) and so on. If the
network cards are PCI, what information does /proc/pci have about them?

Old guy