Network adapter(Realtek RTL8111/8168B) not communicating with network
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Network adapter(Realtek RTL8111/8168B) not communicating with network
Hi LQ forum users
This is my first post on this forum, here goes.
I have recently purchased a new intel system. I am having alot of trouble getting the network card to communicate with the rest of our network.
I am running slackware 12.0, which I have just installed on the system. The problem is that the network is not configuring itself. If i set the network to use DHCP, then all it does is poll for an ip address, timeout and and continue booting. It seems to not find the network or something, because it doesn't get an ip. ifconfig only shows the local host. I then, through netconfig, set up a static ip for the machine. I have used an ip which is not in use (by pinging consecutive ip addresses from a working machine till i get host unreachable). I use the correct gateway/subnet/nameserver settings, and save. If i then run ifconfig, the connection shows up, but i still cannot ping anything except the actual machine.
I will include information from what i think can help (below), please, if you need anything else, just ask, and it shall be done. note that sll this info is taken after setting up the network using static ip.
output from ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:85:91:2C:B5
inet addr:146.230.89.199 Bcast:146.230.89.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:85ff:fe91:2cb5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:4294967258 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:30 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2000
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