hello.
i have just installed fedora core 4 on a a Sony vaio pcg-f680 laptop that uses a replicator. my kawasaki usb nic wont work after installation.

i have checked to see that the module is correctly loaded and this is true from lsmod :it revealed kaweth 21185 0
i also checked my /etc/modprobe.conf file and the entry alias eth0 kaweth is included.
but the card wont see other host on the network and mii-tool gave "operation not supported" while ethtool eth0 gave "no data available"

when i ping host on the network i get "destination host unreachable"

i assigned a static address to the interface and it starts on bootup and when i restart netowrk.

i also use this same card for connecing to my network on my windows OS partition. (i am trying to dual -boot)

another problem is that it takes about 5minutes for kernel boot up to pass "enabling swap space"


what is the problem and what is the solution


waiting for a lifeline.

When you insmod the driver, what is the output from dmesg? What other drivers are loaded? Is usb support loaded? What's the output of lsusb? Is the device even being detected?

There are a number of reasons that you aren't getting network conectivity here. To start with, you need to know if linux even sees the device (lsusb). If not, then you need to install the usb device drivers, or there is probably another driver for the docking station (if that is what you are plugging into).

If you can, post the output from lspci, lsusb, lsmod, and the last few lines of dmesg after plugging in the usb device.

Tobin

thanks for the mail. i will paste the result from each of the commands u suggested.

1. lspci: usb controller: intel corporation 82371ab/eb/mb piix4 usb (rev 01)

2. lsmod : kaweth 21185 0

3. lsusb: command not found

output from dmesg::::
usbcore: registered nerw driver hiddev
usbcore: registered nerw driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:usb HID core driver
usbcore: register new driver kaweth
usb 1-2: new full speeed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: downloading firmware
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: firmware downloaded. I'll be back ........
kaweth: probe of 1-2:1.0 failed with error -5
usb 1-2 :USB/ disconnectd, address 2
......
.......
usb 1-2:new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: firmware present in device
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: statistics collection: 13fbffff
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: multicast filter limit:80
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: MTU: 1514
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: REad MAC address 08:00:46:02:63:b33
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: kaweth interface created at eth0
....
...
drivers/usb/net/kaweth.c: failed to set R mode: -16
eth0 : no ipv6 routers present


those are the ones that pertains to the driver and the usb port in the dmesg


the docking port is what i use in powering the system and it was there when i did the installation.


thanks in anticipation of ur reply. looks like i am getting somewhere

This may be a problem. It could either be a driver issue, or something else (could just be a driver parameter that needs to be added). Try typing "/sbin/ifconfig eth0", and see what comes back. Also, try typing "ethtool eth0", and see what it says.

If they both come back without any errors, then try assigning an IP address (as root) with "/sbin/ifconfig eth0 <ip address>". Try to use the same ip address your windows os uses. That should get you closer to where you need to be.

Your profile states that you are using Redhat 8. You might want to upgrade to a newer version, as most of the mainstream distros now support network hotplugging on laptops, and will autoconfig your network settings when you plug in a cable or enable a wireless network interface (if it is supported by Linux).

You can safely igonore this as ipv6 isn't in wide use yet.

well i assigned an ip address to the interface and when i do ifconfig on the interface, it shows the :

link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:46:02:63:b3
inet addr:192.168.0.100 bcast:192.168.0.255 mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:46ff:fe02:63b3/64 scope:link
up broadcast multicast mtu 1514 metric:1
rx packets:20608: errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
tx packets:20608: errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
rx bytes:1948996 (1.8 MiB) tx bytes:136 (136.0 b)

ethtool eth0 gave "no data available"

why is lsusb not working?

the distro is FEDORA CORE 4
thanks

Well, it definitely appears to be working. It is showing traffic at least. lsusb needs to either be run as root, or you need to specificly point to it (/usr/sbin/lsusb), as it probably is not in your path.

Now that you have an IP address for it, can you ping any other system on your network? You will need to specify the IP address of the target system, as I doubt you have the host table or DNS setup.