[NTLUG:Discuss] Troubleshooting a network connection

[LEROY TENNISON]

I did check that and it was loaded.  Fortunately I don't have identical NICs in the PC.  Will relate what I discovered (along with questions) in a separate email.

Burton Strauss <Burton_Strauss at comcast.net> wrote: Make sure you are actually loading the SIS driver.  IIRC, there are a bunch
of similar NICs all using the same or similar RelTek chip which sometimes
got confused.

-----Burton 

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Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Troubleshooting a network connection

I'm in the middle of installing CentOS 4.2 right now and have run into a
major problem.  I have two NICs in my PC which worked fine under Red Hat 9.
Now the NIC (a sis900) which accesses the Internet and gets a DHCP address
from my SMC Barracade DSL "router" doesn't get an IP address under CentOS.
I know the hardware is good because this is coming to you from Knoppix 3.2
booted on the "problem" hardware.  I'm going to try and check the versions
of the sis900 driver being used, I've stopped the firewall temporarily to
make sure that wasn't an issue.  I've tried setting the IP address and mask
with ifconfig as well as the gateway with route to see if I could ping
(without success).

What else can I try?  Any easy way to check driver versions?  Thanks in
advance for any and all help.

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