Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78377
NatSemi dp83815 driver won't ping (from an HP laptop)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:38 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 Description of problem: lsmod would recognize this card. "neat" could identify the card and activate eth0 on a "static" configuration but not on a DHCP configuration. Under DHCP no ip address could be assigned. Under static configuration, I could order 192.168.0.101 , netmask 255.255.255.0 and gateway of 192.168.0.1 and could get this HP pavilion ze4101 to ping itself 100%. I could ping the router (192.168.0.1) and get about 40% to 60% responses. I called Red Hat Incident reporting and was advised to write a bugzilla Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Instll red hat 7.3 2.add boot option "nopcmcia" and "nomce" 3.Try to configure DHCP, then static for NIC connection Actual Results: static would ping, DHCP would not ping the router (d-link 604) or outside world Expected Results: eth0 should work as a static configuration or under DHCP. Laptop should connect to the internet through the router. Additional info: Other issues with the HP pavilion seem unrelated. First, it hangs on pcmcia initiation, even without a pcmcia card in the slot, and second, a kernel panic ensues each time unless a boot option is passed to the kernel boot: linux nomce. On the other hand, they may be related. Also the internal modem seems to be a "winmodem" that is, software configured.
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.