Hi,
I'm running Gutsy on an Asus A6Jc laptop, with RTL8111/8169B gigabit ethernet card and ipw3945ABG wireless card, using Gnome and (at present) the Network Manager applet. Up until a few days ago, everything was working fine - it booted up, and if the ethernet lead (to a belkin router) was plugged in, it would use that to access the network, otherwise it would connect wirelessly (to the same router).
Now, upon bootup, its asking me for my keyring pwd (so it can connect to the wireless), and in the network manager menu, the wired network option is greyed out. If I unplug and re-plug the ethernet cable, the wired option comes back (and network manager automagically connects to it) but I get no network of internet access. If I use the wireless, all is fine.
Hardware wise, nothings changed, and the router 'sees' both my wired connection and wireless (and logs no error messages). I also get an IP address (DHCP) when I try to connect with the cable, so I'm pretty certain that its a software problem.
Here's the output of ifconfig when I'm connected wirelessly -
Code:
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:C1:8E:29
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:95 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:361 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9584 (9.3 KB) TX bytes:22321 (21.7 KB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:C1:8E:29
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11941 (11.6 KB) TX bytes:37693 (36.8 KB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xa000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:02:4B:22:F6
inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:8 dropped:1195 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5026 (4.9 KB) TX bytes:10375 (10.1 KB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xa000 Memory:fe1ff000-fe1fffff
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:241 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:241 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20661 (20.1 KB) TX bytes:20661 (20.1 KB)
vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.23.1 Bcast:172.16.23.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.172.1 Bcast:172.16.172.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
(vmnet1,vmnet8 and br0 were created aaaaaages ago by vmware server)
And here is ifconfig when I'm ''connected'' by cable -
Code:
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:C1:8E:29
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:53 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4731 (4.6 KB) TX bytes:21691 (21.1 KB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:C1:8E:29
inet addr:192.168.2.7 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6476 (6.3 KB) TX bytes:32838 (32.0 KB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xa000
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:211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17988 (17.5 KB) TX bytes:17988 (17.5 KB)
vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.23.1 Bcast:172.16.23.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:172.16.172.1 Bcast:172.16.172.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Note no eth1 anymore, is this normal? I haven't noticed it previously, and the wireless card isn't turned off when I choose cable...
Software wise, the day before all this started happening (ie, the boot before this started) I had updated and installed some programs, and also completely removed (including config files) some others, although none were related to networking stuff. I can't remember which ones though... are there any logs anywhere that'll tell me?
So, any ideas? If its gonna be hassle (or if I can't be bothered) I'll just do a fresh install of Ubuntu - I've not got much on here I especially want.
Many thanks, Matt
