Hi,
I have this computer I use to play around with linux (let's call it a test system
) and all was well ... until our internet connection got upgraded - we moved from IP addresses starting with 192. to a range starting with 82. The Windows computers (my father's, brother's and my other one) are fine, no problem at all, but the linux computer suddenly refused to load the module for the NIC.
After some searching I found what module it should load (tulip) and uncommented this line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
Still no go.
Some searching around left me with a few topics here that seemed more or less relevant at the time (when I was looking for the correct module to load) but, unfortunately, none of them had a solution to offer.
What they did offer me was a few commands I should run and that you might need.
ifconfig -a gives me this :
Code:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:26:C1:61:6A
BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7020 (6.8 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lsmod gives me the following :
Code:
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss 36704 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12152 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
uhci 24284 0 (unused)
usbcore 58860 1 [uhci]
snd-cmipci 16704 0
gameport 1420 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-pcm 54504 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cmipci]
snd-opl3-lib 5860 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-hwdep 4352 0 [snd-opl3-lib]
snd-timer 13412 0 [snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-rawmidi 12320 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3812 0 [snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]
snd 31268 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cmipci snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
nvidia 3643836 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 9392 0
tulip 39200 0
crc32 2880 0 [tulip]
agpgart 45092 0 (unused)
And
lspci -v gives me this result (if you need the full output, just let me know ... I thought I'd cut back on size by omitting everything that's not a network card :P). The NIC itself is a LevelOne FNC-0111TX.
Code:
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)
Subsystem: Accton Technology Corporation: Unknown device 1216
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
Memory at ef000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Expansion ROM at ee000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
I tried running
dhcpcd (as a background process, should that matter) but after some time it exits with code 14 (whatever that means).
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Another thing I came across was someone who solved a problem by getting rid of the dhcpcd-eth0.cache, dhcpcd-eth0.info and dhcpcd-eth0.pid (which I don't have) in the /etc/dhcpc dir through his shutdown script (which makes me assume they don't need to exist when the computer boots).
I tried manually renaming these files by adding .bak to the end. The only result of this is that now at boot, I also get the message
Code:
dhcpcd[82]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER
which wasn't previously there.
When doing this through the rc.6 script (inserting the
mv command right after the code that gets rid of the dhcpcd) the exact same thing happens : a DHCP_DISCOVER without a result.
I'd start to think that the DHCP server was unreachable, but both the linux computer and the computer I'm using atm are connected to the same hub, which is then connected to the cable modem via another hub. The hardware all seems to be fine as far as I can tell.
Any ideas on what the problem could be in the first place? (solutions are more than welcome as well of course, but I don't mind doing some searching if I know what to look for :P)