Clone install headaches

[Paul DiRezze]

SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At 10:36 AM 11/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Either your PCI BIOS or sis900 module is broken. First check on your BIOS 
>setup, somewhere in the "Advanced Configuration" and look for the option 
>"PNP OS" or "Plug-and-Play OS Installed" (or similar) and happily change 
>it to "NO". Save, reboot and let RedHat try to bring the interface up.

This did the trick.  Why is this?

I just want say thanks again for all your help and I want to thank everyone 
else who responded to my request.

Now the fun begins :)

I'll post a summary re:Linux friendly Computer Stores in the Greater 
Toronto Area in a day or two.

paul


>If after all this the problem continues, you could try adding "pci=bios" 
>in your kernel parameters:
>
>in /etc/lilo.conf, append="pci=bios" and run "lilo"
>
>or, if using GRUB, in /etc/grub.conf add "pci=bios" at the end of the line 
>which begins with "kernel ..."
>
>Hope that helps!
>
>[]s,
>SAlvi
>
>
>Paul DiRezze wrote:
>>At 03:11 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>Hmmm, that makes sense as you can't copy and paste from your isolated 
>>>machine :)
>>>
>>>Try the following then:
>>>
>>># stop network:
>>>service network stop
>>
>>No problem
>>
>>># make sure there is no DHCP client using/locking the interface
>>>ps uxaw | grep -i dhclient
>>>ps uxaw | grep -i eth
>>>ps uxaw | grep -i dhcp
>>
>>None were running
>>
>>># if you find some, run
>>>kill -9 PID (where PID is the process number you've got in the "ps" command)
>>>
>>># check again with "ps" if they're gone
>>>
>>># try to unload the module from kernel:
>>>rmmod sis900
>>
>>No problem
>>
>>># and try running the DHCP client manually:
>>>dhclient -d eth0
>>
>>Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0pl2
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
>>SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
>>Listening on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:e3:f1:28
>>Sending on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:e3:f1:28
>>Sending on Socket/Fallback
>>receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
>>DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
>>send_packet: Network is Down
>>DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
>>send_packet: Network is Down
>>DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
>>send_packet: Network is Down
>>DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
>>send_packet: Network is Down
>>DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
>>send_packet: Network is Down
>>No DHCPOFERS received
>>No working leases in persistent database - sleeping
>>and then it begins all over again
>>
>>># open another terminal (Alt-F2), logon as root and check the interfaces:
>>>ifconfig -a
>>>
>>>And keep looking the output of the dhclient command. Send the output of 
>>>"ifconfig -a" and dhclient. If this doesn't work too, I would say it's a 
>>>problem with this module (sis900) and compile a newer kernel, but you'll 
>>>have to transfer it using some CD-R or floppy disks (sic)...
>>>
>>>BTW, what's your kernel version and CPU? "uname -a" it :)
>>
>>domain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42.51 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 
>>GNU/Linux
>>
>>>[]s,
>>>Salvi
>>>
>>>
>>>Paul DiRezze wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sorry,  my mistake.
>>>>The output from the command is alias eth0 sis900 and NOT 9000.  I made 
>>>>a typo while transcribing the contents of the file.
>>>>Sorry about that.
>>>>paul
>>>>At 02:04 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Yep, that's it!!
>>>>>
>>>>>Paul: change it to "900" (and not nine thousand) and run "service 
>>>>>network restart".
>>>>>
>>>>>[]s,
>>>>>Salvi
>>>>>
>>>>>Sergey Kuznetsov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On March 10, 2004 01:53 pm, Paul DiRezze wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>At 01:32 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Please send the output of the following commands:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>cat /etc/modules.conf
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>alias eth0 sis9000
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     I think there is mistake, it must be:
>>>>>>         alias eth0 sis900
>>>>>
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