After I installed Slackware 13.37 on an Asus eM350 netbook, the network device is not functioning. I wonder if it's just that the NIC drivers are not installed, or something else. It's been a long while since I did anything with Linux, so I don't quite know what's going on.
The computer has a wireless i/f, but I'm trying to get the wired one up--at least for now.
Anyway, here's the information I've gathered. (Note that it's copied by hand, hence the sometimes non-standard tabulation.)
From lspci:
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01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast Ethernet (rev c0)
From /var/log/messages:
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kernel: [ 19.757294] atl1c 0000:01:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is UP<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
dhcpd[1632]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpd[1632]: eth0: probing for an IPv4LL address
dhcpd[1632]: eth0: checking for 169.254.205.242
dhcpd[1632]: eth0: using IPv4LL address 169.254.205.242
From /var/log/syslog:
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dhcpd[1770]: timed out
dhcpd[1770]: allowing 8 seconds for IPv4LL timeout
dhcpd[1770]: timed out
...
dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth0 (169.254.39.196).
dhcpd: ** Ignoring requests on eth0. If this is not what
dhcpd: you want, please write a subnet declaration
dhcpd: in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
dhcpd: to which eth0 is attached. **
dhcpd:
dhcpd: Not configured to listen on any interfaces!
...
dhcpd[1632]: timed out
dhcpd[1632]: allowing 8 seconds for IPv4LL timeout
From ifconfig:
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eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 88:AE:1D:16:D8:76
inet addr:169.254.205.242 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: [some IPv6 address]
UP BROADCASTING RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:495 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:95304 (93.0 Kb) TX bytes: 12384 (12.0 Kb)
Interrupt:43
I have no idea where this IP address is coming from. My windows box using the DHCP server has a 192.168 address.
From route:
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Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.205.242 * 255.255.0.0 U 202 0 0 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
There is no default gateway.
From /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf:
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# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""
[eth1, 2, and 3 have only empty fields]
# Default gateway IP address:
GATEWAY=""
Also, the network confifuration utility in KDE shows no network devices.
That's what I have. I don't know how to figure out what the problem is, so any pointers are immensely appreciated.
