EF>I reinstalled Redhat 7.1 on my computer at school and I am unable to EF>connect to the internet. I have only been using Linux for about 7-8 EF>months and I am still a novice. When I was using Redhat 7.1 last EF>spring, it worked fine.
WS>what happened between then and now? new hard drive? (just curious; i'm WS>of the If-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it school... <g>)
I updated the system using Redhat's upgrade system and I recieved errors messages > and things stopped working. Since I had no clue how to fix it, I said forget it.
EF>I am using a 3com Etherlink card (the driver EF>is 3c905c-tx in windows) and my computer seems to detect it correctly.
WS>you know this from the boot up screen?
I got the information about the NIC by using the command "ifconfig eth0." The command displays the driver installed for the device.
EF>However, it is using the 3com59* driver. I tried to switch to the EF>driver to 3com90*, but my computer stopped recognizing the card so I EF>doubt it is a driver problem. (Plus, it was using the same driver last EF>spring.)
WS>how were you doing this? usually, all you should need to do is re-compile WS>the kernel if support for your Network Interface Card (NIC) isn't there WS>already.
Since I have no clue about recompiling the kernel, I made the changes using linuxconf. It is a GUI program that is supposed to reconfigure things for you.
EF>I also tried pump -i eth0 and it failed.
WS>i'm not familiar with "pump"... does it have something to do with DHCP?