<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Harry Rickards <span dir="ltr"><masked...></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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What happens if you type 'cat /etc/network/interfaces' into a Terminal<br>
(Accessories > Terminal). Also, what happens if you type 'sudo ifconfig<br>
- -a' and enter your password when prompted.<br>
</blockquote></div>As you'd expect Harry, in fact, exactly what I got yesterday when it was all playing up i.e. the static address for the LAN, the netmask and the gateway address, which is what I'd have expected.....<br>
<br>Plus it was why I booted back into windows to try there, because windows won't (well, I don't know how anyway) tell me what the IP's that the network card/setting were, but being that nice, cute, cuddly, hand holding OS that it is, it told me that the network device was working.<br>
<br>I also got the same stuff, excluding the default gateway that was set from ifconfig -a<br><br>Also - <br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
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A quick google of AL2100 seems to show that it is a chip fitted to<br>
various routers / Broadcom modems- see link below. Without knowing<br>
which make of router / modem you have. Still leaves it a bit in the<br>
wind. You didn't by any chance reset the router / modem?<br>
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<a href="http://www.1sourcecomponents.com/partinfo/AL2100.htm" target="_blank">http://www.1sourcecomponents.com/partinfo/AL2100.htm</a><br>
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Dave P</div></blockquote><div><br>No, the AL2100 thing was to do with the lack of sound. That link points to various routers/modems etc none of which is what I'm currently using (a "BeBox", which is actually a Thomson TG585v7 as supplied by Be).<br>
<br>The sound device ? well I'm unsure how to interrogate the system to find out what it is i.e. an onboard chip or a proper card, if it's a chip it'll be Nvidia related as it (the PC) seems to have an Nvidia motherboard.<br>
<br>It's another one of those things about linux that I just don't get i.e. if it was working in an earlier incarnation, then why release a newer version where there's some sort of bug ? Albeit with the network manager for KDE or the sound issue.<br>
<br>I'm guessing, but it seems to me more about how linux is put together in general i.e. lots of parts produced by the individual developers, rather than a "cohesive team" like the software nazis at MS and their chain of command and management....<br>
<br>Of course, it could be that I just happened to have started using (and quite enjoying) gnome and the co-incidence that the bug(s) have been cured!!!? I don't know.<br><br>There might be a way of interrogating the system so that it chucks up a full set of system spec's, but if there is, I don't know it. I do now that SuSE included a small app that did that a couple of versions ago (last time I tried it), because it was useful to have the info copied into a text file for reference - but that was with the old system, that's currently waiting to have the hard drives stripped out and put into enclosures to use as external storage.<br>
<br>So while I don't really have much of a clue about why I didn't have any sound for a while under KDE, I'm just happy that I managed to work out that the lack of connectivity was just a lock up of the ethernet switch. Like being a "Brighton Junkie" after a decent bust by the pointy heads, well that was what it felt like being deprived of my connectivity yesterday!<br>
<br>I still don't understand why it is that the gnome network manager won't show the wired connection (the router/modem will do wireless as well but I've got that disabled as I don't trust wireless - that's another story). It's like it's something only available to root, but I haven't bothered enabling root etc, despite absolute hatred of sudo...<br>
<br>If it were up to me I'd move back to sidux, now that's what I call a good distro. It updates the world and it's dog, with just a script. The only downside being that the best guidance for it is in German and I don't speak that....<br>
<br>All that's actually pi55ing me off about current distro's is that I can't use the case front button to open my DVDRW. I have to open and terminal and use the "eject" command, and as that works, there must be a way of enabling the case button. <br>
<br>I suppose that's just another mystery for a nugget like me!<br><br>regards<br><br>John D.<br></div>