My brother just installed Redhat 8 on his puter ,and can’t connect to the net. We are on home lan , connecting to a router.
Bringing up internetconnection-druid brings up the GUI , but after trying several things , we can’t activate the card.
So before I hit the linux forums with specific questions , I was curious to know if Redhat 8 had any problems that it shipped with , like the wrong drivers for the lan card etc.
Declan
One machine at work still uses RedHat8 (for various reasons). It has never had any networking problems. It installed straight from the box, and hasn’t really been touched since.
Some questions to get you started:
How dead is the network?
There are a few things you can start.
Can you ping any other machine?
Can you ping yourself? (‘ping 127.0.0.1’)
Is the network running at all? ( ‘/etc/init.d/network status’ - as root)
Try doing ‘/sbin/ifconfig’ - Does it show anything coherent?
What’s the contents of /etc/resolv.conf ?
Don’t give up yet!
(Although, just one small question - Why are you installing RedHat 8? Why not a newer version?)
Is the network card too new for Red Hat 8? If the card is very recent and the operating system is older, it is possible that the operating system does not have a driver describing how to use the card. The hardware is newer than the OS.
If this is the case, you just need to download the driver for the card.
Use the GUI again and look at the hardware view of the system. Does it show your networking card with a driver associated?
Or, download a newer version of Fedora or Red Hat.
Its not my system , I am running mandy 10.1 with no network problems since I started with 8.2 .
He just wanted the latest copy of Redhat that I had sitting around , the one I found was the 8.0 , and was as simple as that. For work related reasons was the original excuse , if I remember right.
Thanks , I am gonna get him to do a re-install, to see if he pooched anything on the options list for installation.
Declan
Jesus, man! Redhat 8 is archaic, and when it was still mainstream, it didn’t last for very long before it was replaced, not by 8.01 or 8.1 but 9.0. It was despised while it lived.
Go get yourself a copy of FC3. Right away!
Latest Redhat (Fedora Core 3) is here: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/
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I personally dont like RH, but your point about RH8 being despised is what prompted the question, cause I can definitely remember alot of very pissed RH core users who were not impresssed with that system.
Declan
I used RH8 for a while before FC1 came out, and I don’t recall having any real problems with it. I wouldn’t use it for a modern system, however, if only because it’s obsolete and I prefer Slackware 10.0 anyway. Slack has a good reputation when it comes to detecting hardware: My desktop machine’s sound card wasn’t recognised by any distro until I got Slack installed, and now it works like a charm. This could be as simple as a new kernel, but RH has a habit of modifying kernels whereas Slack ships with the latest stable (or thereabouts).
So, if your friend isn’t afraid of the command line and modifying a few configuration files, Slackware is a good way to go.
Derleth, zsh freak and proud member of the Church of Emacs. 