I am a student at Texas A&M University, and I went to "Linux Installation Fest" hosted by IBM and had Fedora Core put on my Inspiron 9300 to dual boot with Windows XP, but we had trouble getting my NIC cards to work. I had to leave to go to a class before one of the installers had a chance to try to fix it, and I've never really used linux before, so now I'm stuck. If anyone could give me a step by step on what to do, I would really appreciate it. eth0: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-BO 100Base-TX eth1: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG I've tried to "Activate" them in Network Configuration, but it tells me "Determining IP information for eth1...failed; no link present. Check cable?" for my wireless card, and "Determining IP information for eth0...failed." for my other card. If you need anymore information, just let me know,

Sounds like they are trying to pick up an IP etc from a DHCP server....have you got one running on your network? What is the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"?

I do have a DHCP server running on my router, and it seems to work fine under Windows XP. /sbin/ifconfig outputs: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3F:D7:56:6B UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:37 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame: 0 TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:12566 (12.2 KiB) TX bytes 5758 (5.6 KiB) Interrupt:11 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1RX packets:1735 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1735 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueulen:0 RX bytes:1931308 (1.8 MiB) TX bytes:1931308 (1.8 MiB)

What happens if you try: # dhclient eth0 ? If successful the next time you do a /sbin/ifconfig it should list your IP address under eth0. For the time being let's just try to get your NIC working....leave the wireless til later as it doesn't look as though you have the driver loaded for it, otherwise it would be listed in the output of ifconfig as wlan0 or possibly eth1.

when entered "dhclient eth0", it says "bash: dhclient: command not found. I tried "/sbin/dhclient eth0" and a few seconds later it gave me another prompt and i ran the ifconfig and everything looked the same (except for a few more RX and TX packets)

Try setting the IP etc manually. # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 This will set your IP to 192.168.0.10 on a class c subnet. # ifconfig eth0 up This will actually bring the interface up, you should now be able to ping yourself on 192.168.0.10. # route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1 This adds your default gateway to 192.168.0.1. Obviously change this IP address to the one of your router.

I completed the first to steps and tried to ping myself, but it says Destination Host Unreachable. After entering the first step, I entered ifconfig eth0 and it showed the IP address and such that I had just entered, but after i enter the second command then enter ifconfig eth0 again, that information is no longer there. Is this suppose to happen? I went ahead and entered the last command, and I still cannot ping anything except for localhost