Hi I have the following problem: I just bought a new Toshiba Satellite C600D. Of course it comes with Windows, but I am used to Fedora. I put my Fed 15 CD in, and run from the CD to check things. I have no internet. When I look up Network connections, there is no DSL tab where I could enter my user name and password. It seems not to be seeing the ethernet card. It does see my home wifi ChinaNet-Qqtn, I put in the WPA key, it seems to connect but I have never been able to access the internet through the wifi.
I am using the same cable as I use with my old computer right now. The internet connection is ok.
I tried using a Ubuntu Live CD as well, and met the same problem: the ethernet connection is not seen. Under Network settings, I havve no tab 'dsl' where I could enter username and password.

Any tips out there? The ethernet is: Atheros AR8152/8158 PCI-E Fast Ethernet

Hi Pedroski, I'm having trouble understanding your problem. Are you trying to connect to a wireless AP or a DSL PPPoE connection? If it's wireless giving you trouble, please post the results of the following commands issued from a terminal.

Good luck. ;-)

Someone on the Fedora forum gave me the tip to try with Fed 14. I did, and it was easy to set up the dsl connection. There was a tab under network connnections 'dsl', I just entered username and password, and it was up and running. I have never got the wifi working, but that doesn't matter!

It's late for me now, but I will post what you said, just out of interest. Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival, any excuse for a party is good enough for me!

Here is the stuff. If you could give me any tips on how to get the wifi working, I would be very grateful. This is my old laptop, but the situation is the same on the new one: it sees the ChinaNet-Qqtn, if I look at network connections it says it is on, but actually I have never been able to use it to connect to the net. On the router is the WPA PSK, which I put in the relevant place, but no joy.

[pedroski@fangshan ~]$ ifconfig -a
em1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:54:6C:1A:E8
inet6 addr: fe80::223:54ff:fe6c:1ae8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:665940 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:379426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:878228133 (837.5 MiB) TX bytes:41195156 (39.2 MiB)
Interrupt:41 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:121297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:121297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:86545365 (82.5 MiB) TX bytes:86545365 (82.5 MiB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:121.237.115.185 P-t-P:121.237.114.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:14628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:6389168 (6.0 MiB) TX bytes:3035893 (2.8 MiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:43:507:95
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:43ff:fe50:d795/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2797 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:330426 (322.6 KiB) TX bytes:402410 (392.9 KiB)

[pedroski@fangshan ~]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

em1 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"ChinaNet-Qqtn"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 30:87:30:24:7C:21
Bit Rate=52 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementn
Link Quality=49/70 Signal level=-61 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:29 Missed beacon:0

ppp0 no wireless extensions.


[pedroski@fangshan ~]$ lspci -v | grep -i net
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

[pedroski@fangshan ~]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 1045 1
tcp_lp 1827 0
ipt_REDIRECT 1258 0
iptable_nat 3734 1
nf_nat 15054 2 ipt_REDIRECT,iptable_nat
pppoe 6612 2
pppox 1808 1 pppoe
ppp_generic 18372 6 pppoe,pppox
slhc 4032 1 ppp_generic
fuse 53547 3
ppdev 6216 0
parport_pc 17816 0
lp 6973 0
parport 26550 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
8021q 14154 0
garp 4938 1 8021q
stp 1391 1 garp
llc 3726 2 garp,stp
p4_clockmod 3524 0
bnep 11748 2
ip6t_REJECT 3395 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 6429 1
nf_defrag_ipv6 7174 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
ip6table_filter 1215 1
ip6_tables 9828 1 ip6table_filter
nf_conntrack_ipv4 6874 4 iptable_nat,nf_nat
nf_defrag_ipv4 1093 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_state 942 2
bluetooth 165011 7 bnep
nf_conntrack 56146 5 iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 20135 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 241866 1
arc4 1085 2
snd_hda_intel 20567 1
snd_hda_codec 71160 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 4905 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq 43528 0
snd_seq_device 5033 1 snd_seq
snd_pcm 63457 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 15245 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 48471 11 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_devic e,snd_pcm,snd_timer
ath9k 87684 0
mac80211 211975 1 ath9k
asus_laptop 12357 0
ath9k_common 1984 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 256547 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 12198 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
cfg80211 126267 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
soundcore 5027 1 snd
nvidia 10375368 115
snd_page_alloc 6035 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sparse_keymap 2746 1 asus_laptop
rfkill 12939 5 bluetooth,asus_laptop,cfg80211
microcode 11689 0
uvcvideo 51089 0
videodev 64085 1 uvcvideo
media 9214 2 uvcvideo,videodev
joydev 7219 0
serio_raw 3394 0
forcedeth 42672 0
i2c_nforce2 5062 0
i2c_core 21572 3 nvidia,videodev,i2c_nforce2
ipv6 235841 29 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6
video 10684 0
wmi 7601 0
[pedroski@fangshan ~]$