No wired connection

mosiac · 07-16-2013, 02:10 PM

It means you typed your password and it was trying to find it as a package. Did the other package install?

Davidicus · 07-16-2013, 02:16 PM

Well, the update icon is showing a tick, so it is up-to-date

mosiac · 07-16-2013, 02:18 PM

Just for the sake of testing type this into the terminal

ifconfig eth0 up

Let's see what happens.

Davidicus · 07-16-2013, 02:22 PM

This is it:

daven@daven-p6-2375ea ~ $ ifconfig eth0 up
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
daven@daven-p6-2375ea ~ $

mosiac · 07-16-2013, 02:27 PM

Ok that just means it still doesn't see your internal network card. It looks like your driver might not be available for the kernel yet by default so we may need to compile it, but first just do a simple reboot of the laptop and see if anything changes network wise.

Davidicus · 07-16-2013, 02:31 PM

Thanks, I'll do that, but although I mentioned I have a laptop, I am doing this at present on the desktop. I will re-boot...

mosiac · 07-16-2013, 02:32 PM

Sorry my mind is a little frazzled yeah restart the desktop, the machine we're trying to get working

Davidicus · 07-16-2013, 02:35 PM

I've done a reboot, and checked for wired connexion using Wicd network mananger, but nothing's changed

mosiac · 07-16-2013, 02:39 PM

Ok the following is going to be a bit of work but looks like it will get your network card possibly working.

First step

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-`uname -r`

Second step

Code:

wget -O- http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc.tar.bz2 | tar -xj

Third

Code:

cd compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc

Fourth

Code:

./scripts/driver-select alx

Fifth

Code:

 make

Lastly

Code:

 sudo make install

After all this finishes you'll just need to do another quick reboot.

If you want more information on what i'm having you do I'm following this link.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/16519...net-controller

It's relative to ubuntu but Mint has some basis in Ubuntu so it's good info to follow.

Davidicus · 07-16-2013, 02:56 PM

Thanks for all your help. I think I did this okay, but the last time I used a command line was with my trusty Commodore Amiga 1200, sadly no-more, but it brought back the old feeling! After re-boot, it still seems to be the same, but didn't suggest I'd made any errors,but it did ask for my password a few times.

Thanks again

Dave Newman

mosiac · 07-16-2013, 02:57 PM

OK well no errors is always good.

Try typing this command just for fun:

Code:

sudo modprobe alx