well, I'm thinking that's might be an honest bug. have you had any other distros on that hardware?, or another nic you could configure to verify whether or not the problem is a part of the nic driver? I just had another thought, is that nic a pcmcia device? if it is, you might need to do a restart of some of the pcmcia modules to get it to kick over. I'm just shooting from the hip, I don't have 7.3 on anything as of yet. so if anyone else can shed some light on this, you might be more help than me at this point. -chris On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Jay Kline wrote: > > "ifup eth0" then that will only re-attempt to get a dhcp address. have > > you issued an "ifconfig eth0 <ip.add.my.sys> netmask <net.for.cur.net> up" > > ? I think I've got that syntax right. that *should* bring the interface > > I have tried both the manual way, and using Redhat's netconfig. I grew up > using Slackware, so I know how to do it by hand, but it does not want to make > a connection. I can ping myself, just not anything else on the network. > > > Jay -- LINUX, because rebooting is for adding hardware! www.linuxsnob.com <-- a little linux humor, and a very little support.