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Ok here is the deal, I used DBAN to wipe my HDD completely clean on my Gateway laptop. Then I installed Fedora 7. The installation went well but I am having two problems. My wireless internet is not working and my ethernet port is non responsive when a LAN cable is plugged into it. I am a newbie to Linux so the issues might be easily fixed. When I run the /sbin/lspci command I get the following for ethernet port and wireless card
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Ltd. 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 14)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really want to start learning the in's and out's of Linux, and my worst nightmare would be going back to Windows.
I have this wireless card too. I can help you with this. With your ethernet card, I'm researching about the driver. Have you configures the network in Fedora ?
With the command "lsmod", look for "sky2". This is your ethernet driver. If you find, you have just to configure the network. I can help you to do this manually. I don't know about Fedora.
Ok. The driver for ethernet card is loaded. From here you should look for help in Fedora, how to set up yor network. Type "setup" in console and configure the network. If you want to do this manually, you have to set up ip, gateway and dns.
ifconfig eth0 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (or "dhclient eth0" if you have a DHCP server)
route add default gw XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (gateway)
echo "nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" > /etc/resolv.conf (DNS)
When I go into Network Configuration and click activate I get the following:
Cannot activate network device eth01!
Determing IP information for eth0...failed.
Of course this is when my LAN cable is plugged in.
Ok, I followed some directions on fedoraproject.com that made the NetworkManager available. I still can't get anything for the wireless, but when I plug in the LAN cable now it says I am connected at 10 Mbps. Although when I open Mozilla I still get Server not found when trying to connect to any website.
With and without the LAN cable plugged in I get:
connect: Network is unreachable
When I plug in the LAN it seems like it takes way too long to acquire an IP address, but it does say connected to wired connection after a minute or so. Any suggestions from here?
Well I just got to work at the my school and when I plugged in the LAN cable here it grabbed the IP address very quickly and I am finally able to access the internet with Fedora. Why do you suppose it works so well here, but has issues at my house? When I run the /sbin/ifconfig -a command I get:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:B8:AB:A4:A1
inet addr:138.47.22.64 Bcast:138.47.22.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:b8ff:feab:a4a1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:760 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:808914 (789.9 KiB) TX bytes:141844 (138.5 KiB)
Interrupt:17
Note: This is with the LAN cable plugged in(I don't know if it makes a difference or not).
And for the /sbin/route command I get:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
138.47.22.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 138.47.22.101 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
How do I go about disabling IPV6, and what exactly is it? Here are the configurations when the LAN is plugged into my home network.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:B8:AB:A4:A1
inet addr:169.254.55.245 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:b8ff:feab:a4a1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3524 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:164534 (160.6 KiB) TX bytes:35660256 (138.5 KiB)
Interrupt:17
And for the /sbin/route command I get:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
I forgot to ask how the laptop is connected to your home LAN i.e. what hardware are you using for a modem, router, switch etc. For some reason your computer is not receiving a valid IP address.
169.254.xxx.xxx (windows calls it Automatic Private IP Addressing) is an IP address that is automatically assigned by the computer when it can not get a valid address from a DHCP server.
To disable IPV6: As root, you must add the line: "alias net-pf-10 off" (without quotes) to the end of your /etc/modprobe.conf file. You must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.
The modem is a Toshiba PCX1100U Cable Modem that is pretty old, and it is connected to a Belkin Wireless G Router-2.4GHz 802.11g. I have read some other posts from people with this same type of problem for the wireless card I have, and a popular solution seems to be ndiswrapper. Is this something you would suggest?
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