[Wylug-help] networking laptop woes

[James Holden]

Mike,

Perhaps the onboard LAN requires firmware uploading or something like 
that. Maybe it is only supported using the 'ndiswrapper' drivers.

Post (or mail me off list) the output of 'dmesg', 'lsmod' and 'lspci'.

Can you set an IP address with somthing like this:

# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.55

Does it work then?

Is the driver getting interrupts?

# cat /proc/interrupts | grep eth0

Regards,

James

Mike Goodman wrote:

>Ping 127.0.0.1 gives no packet loss and ifconfig eth0 identifies the
>card address etc, although no IP address. Can that happen and the
>interface be missing?
>
>On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:21 +0100, Andy Macdonald wrote:
>  
>
>>Mike,
>>
>>You will need to load a software driver for the network interface, if one exists for that hardware for Linux ...
>>
>>Andy
>>
>>On Tue, 12 Jul, Mike Goodman wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Acer 3000, brand new, with FC4 apparently satisfactorily loaded and
>>>seeming to work OK except for networking on the LAN. Haven't tried
>>>internet via modem or connecting to mobile yet. Looking at the various
>>>files I am aware
>>>of, /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 all looks fine to me.
>>>
>>>For comparison, I looked into those files on a FC4 workstation. No
>>>differences I could spot. This morning I have loaded another workstation
>>>with CentOS4.1 and it networked fine, same router (SMC Barricade) with
>>>an 8-port switch hanging off it, on the same LAN, i.e. exactly as I'm
>>>trying to set the laptop up, but I noticed that both workstations
>>>have /etc/resolv.conf contents:
>>>
>>>;generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
>>>search local.sys
>>>nameserver 192.168.2.1
>>>
>>>whereas the laptop only has the middle line. I entered the nameserver
>>>line manually to no avail. Would it work if I were to run
>>>the /sbin/dhclient-script and, if so, how do I get it to run? If not,
>>>can someone tell me what might work?
>>>
>>>I have tried two different cat5 cables and then tried the one hanging
>>>out of the back of the new workstation - to no avail.
>>>
>>>Thanks, as always - confident there's a network guru out there
>>>somewhere!
>>>
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>
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