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I have a PCI (RTL8139) base Ethernet card connected to my Intel 865GBF motherboard. I am using UBUNTU 7.04 Linux. I properly configured the IP and DNS address. But I am not able to access internet.
I am very sure that the hardware is good, because in windows I can able to access internet.
I just want to know, how I can find out whether the proper driver for my Ethernet card is installed or not. How can I find out the details of NIC which is connected on my PC.
Please inform me the steps to install a PCI base Ethernet card and for its settings.
Without internet I am unable to update Ubuntu. Please help me out…
for lspci -v it is showing a lot of interfaces. I am showing here ethernet related only:
lspci -v
gs: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at ff8ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
to me this shows your IP as 192.168.1.104. so 1st thing todo is make sure the nic has this IP -
run the following command from the terminal.
"ping 192.168.1.104" (without the quotes) wait a few seconds and you should see loads of reply's, meaning we have comunication to the NIC at least - if the screen just pauses - then this is a driver/hardware issue -
Ill assume you have a reply from the ping command above. right, the 2nd step is to ping the gateway and make sure we have a reply. (Ill guess and say your gateway is 192.168.1.1 - but please check and ping it)
ping 192.168.1.1 - again we want a reply from this IP - if there is no ping reply - then either, A network cable upplugged or not the correct gateway IP being used -
So Ill assume again that we have comms to the nic and to the gateway(Router).
right so it all seems setup?. wait!
can you ping bbc.co.uk? and get a reply
"ping bbc.co.uk"
do you get a reply from
ping 212.58.224.131
do you get a reply from ping bbc.co.uk - if not what about ping 212.58.224.131 - this is the bbc.co.uk IP address -
if you get a reply from the IP and not the domain(bbc.co.uk) it means you have the wrong DNS servers setup.
if your still having problems - let me know the outcome from the commands above and ill try and help out.
And: you missed a question - How are you connecting to the internet?
Ethernet to a phone line will not work so we are guessing some sort of modem, maybe one of those modem/switch/router things. But thats a guess.
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