I guess I'll have to put another NIC in my laptop to see what happens. Sam. Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > > I'm having a bear of a time with Fedora yarrow and networking on a > laptop. I'm on a dell using: > > Xircom pcmcia NIC/modem using xircom_cb > builtin 3com 3c556 using 3c59x driver > > > Yesterday, somehow while I was manually setting up which interface > should be eth0/eth1 and setting the driver aliases etc, both NICs got > the same MAC address. ifconfig as well as "ip -o link show" reported > the NICs having the same MAC addr. I searched the system for > anything that would be setting it and found nothing. all of the > ifcfg-eth* scripts in /etc/sysconfig were not setting hwaddr, the > redhat-config-network gui also showed them having the same hwaddr, > even when using the "bind to MAC addr" button and the "probe" > button. I deleted both interfaces using the network gui config tool > and recreated them - no dice - still had the same addr. > > I finally broke down and reinstalled. during the install I set one > NIC (eth0) up to use dhcp and be active on boot The other (eth1) is > static (0.0.0.0) and and active at boot. They now have unique MAC > address. > > So my question is: What does the installer do to get the REAL MAC > address from the hardware? Is there a command or utilitiy to probe > NIC hardware and get the MAC? > > Now that I have reinstalled, I get unique MAC addr, but the > networking isn't working after a boot until I do a "service network > restart"... the network restart seems to do a couple of things: > > 1) It will get me an appropriate ip address for the network I'm on. > Most of the time upon reboot, I get the IP address that the last dhcp > server gave me - like a 192.168.0.100 address even though I'm on a > 10.1.103.x address. > > 2) It will add a default route. > > I don't understand why it doesn't do this at boot time. Any place I > can start checking for errors? > > thanks > johnnyf > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list