I have partitioned my Hard disk and loaded RH9 & WIN98.  I want to re-create
the LAN i have up and going under Win98 with two other machines (also Win
98) and eventually get on the internet.  RH9 has configured the RealtikL8139
ethernet card but when I go to actviate it, I get the following message:
'Cannot activate Network device eth0.  Determining IP information for
eth0......iptables:Nochain/target/match by that name.
Iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?)'

I am new to Linux. I have seached just about every site to find an answer or
an idea as to what's going on, but I'm not finding it.

Can someone help please? Thanks,

John

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John Stone wrote:
> I have partitioned my Hard disk and loaded RH9 & WIN98.  I want to re-crea
te
> the LAN i have up and going under Win98 with two other machines (also Win
> 98) and eventually get on the internet.  RH9 has configured the RealtikL81
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> ethernet card but when I go to actviate it, I get the following message:
> 'Cannot activate Network device eth0.  Determining IP information for
> eth0......iptables:Nochain/target/match by that name.
> Iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?)'
>
> I am new to Linux. I have seached just about every site to find an answer 
or
> an idea as to what's going on, but I'm not finding it.
>
> Can someone help please? Thanks,
>
I cannot help directly. For various reasons, I just installed RHL9 on a
dual boot machine (with Windows XP). It has an Intel 10/100 ethernet card
and that configured with no problems at all. I do not happen to have
iptables doing anything on that machine yet, since it is not directly
connected to the Internet, and the machine to which it is connected has a
firewall on it that pretty much protects the RHL9 machine anyway. When
that machine is running W_XP, the firewall is extremely strict and allows
outgoing access only to port 80 of the Microsoft IP addresses concerned
with updates, and similarly for Intuit for TurboTax and Quicken.

Your message suggests that the problem you have is in your iptables
firewall. Examine the rules you used to setup the firewall. There is
surely an error in there.

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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:39:09 +0000, John Stone wrote:

> I have partitioned my Hard disk and loaded RH9 & WIN98.  I want to
> re-create the LAN i have up and going under Win98 with two other
> machines (also Win 98) and eventually get on the internet.  RH9 has
> configured the RealtikL8139 ethernet card but when I go to actviate it,
> I get the following message: 'Cannot activate Network device eth0.
> Determining IP information for eth0......iptables:Nochain/target/match
> by that name. Iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that
> chain?)'
>
> I am new to Linux. I have seached just about every site to find an
> answer or an idea as to what's going on, but I'm not finding it.
>
> Can someone help please? Thanks,
>
> John

Sounds like you're trying to configure eth0 with DHCP but there's no route
through the firewall for DHCP traffic.

Disable iptables temporarily until you get your network card loading.

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Thanks and thanks for the whimsey

Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.10.21.17.06.13.372611@you.now...
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:39:09 +0000, John Stone wrote:
> 
>
> Sounds like you're trying to configure eth0 with DHCP but there's no route
> through the firewall for DHCP traffic.
>
> Disable iptables temporarily until you get your network card loading.
>
> --
> i.m.
> The USA Patriot Act is the most unpatriotic act in American history.
>

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