[NTLUG:Discuss] NIC Woes

[Steve Baker]

WILLIAM PEARSON wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get my Linux box to connect to my cable modem through an 8
> port hub. Got an additional IP from AT&T and everything I need. However
> everytime the computer boots up and tries to initialize eth0, the light
> showing the presance of the NIC on the hub goes out. I've got Red Hat 6.0
> and 7.0, both versions do it. I'm curious if anyone else has had this
> problem and would know if it's a linux, driver, or NIC problem. Might AT&T
> have issued me a duplicate IP and it's dropping it accordingly? Any help
> would be appriciated. Also, what is the difference between Server and
> Workstation with Linux. I know the difference between Server and
> Workstation with NT. With Linux the two look almost identical but with
> different software packages installed, perhaps I'm correct?

Long Shot: This may be something you've checked and find glaringly
obvious - but I have to ask:

Whatever cable used to link your computer to the modem should not have
been used to connect the hub to the modem - right?

I don't know which 'gender' your modem is - but if it needs a crossover
cable to connect straight into the back of the computer - then it WON'T
need one to connect into the hub.  If it didn't need a crossover to connect
into the computer then it WILL need one in order to plug into the hub.

Computer to hub should be a non-crossed cable come-what-may.

Either way, if you didn't pay attention to the cable genders, this could
easily be your problem.  I don't know how it would explain your particular
set of symptoms though.

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