Cannot Network AT ALL On Mandrake 9.1

johnleemk · 11-22-2003, 10:44 AM

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iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

/bin/bash · 11-22-2003, 04:02 PM

What is the NIC card type?

What module does the nic card use and does it show up when you do a lsmod?

johnleemk · 12-03-2003, 07:37 AM

How can I find out my NIC card type? How do I find out what module it uses? It's tulip, I presume? Here's lsmod's output:

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Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
autofs4                11540   2  (autoclean)
parport_pc             25096   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8096   0  (autoclean)
parport                34176   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
sg                     34636   0  (autoclean) (unused)
st                     29488   0  (autoclean) (unused)
sr_mod                 16920   0  (autoclean) (unused)
sd_mod                 13100   0  (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod              103284   4  (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod]
ide-cd                 33856   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  31648   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
snd-seq-midi            4768   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-opl3-synth         12516   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-instr           7172   0  (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]
snd-seq-midi-emul       6780   0  (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]
snd-ainstr-fm           2912   0  (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]
snd-seq-oss            31104   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      5640   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq                42736   2  [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss            43172   0
snd-mixer-oss          14488   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-cmipci             22848   0
snd-pcm                76384   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-cmipci]
snd-mpu401-uart         4332   0  [snd-cmipci]
snd-rawmidi            17600   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-opl3-lib            8132   0  [snd-opl3-synth snd-cmipci]
snd-timer              14408   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-hwdep               5344   0  [snd-opl3-lib]
snd-seq-device          5832   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib]
snd                    43396   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-cmipci snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-seq-device]
soundcore               6276   0  [snd]
nfsd                   74256   8  (autoclean)
af_packet              14952   2  (autoclean)
floppy                 55132   0
tulip                  44032   1  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-15          4092   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp850               4316   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   11820   1  (autoclean)
fat                    37944   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount             15296   2  (autoclean)
usb-ohci               20584   0  (unused)
usbcore                72992   1  [usb-ohci]
rtc                     8060   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   59916   5
jbd                    38972   5  [ext3]

By the way, sorry for being late. I went on holiday/vacation and didn't have net access.

/bin/bash · 12-03-2003, 04:45 PM

OK I have spent the last hour getting re-aquainted with this problem, reading every post and following all links. About 30min googling.

Now from what I can gather that card has had compatibility problems. You need to try a different module (dmfe) and see if it works. To do that you'll have to edit /etc/modules.conf. You should have a line like this in the file:
alias eth0 tulip
Leave the line in the file but put a # at the beginning of the line and add this:

#alias eth0 tulip
alias eth0 dmfe

Now save /etc/modules.conf and do this:

service network stop
rmmod tulip
lsmod #Make sure tulip is gone
modprobe dmfe
lsmod #Look for dmfe module
service network start

See what happens.

Of course you know my next suggestion if this fails is to get another NIC card right?

ripit · 12-03-2003, 06:12 PM

Hello
I'm also a total newbie at this but I have managed to get my router working with a ordinary netwok card but not with a wireless card yet. I think that you must tell the name of your gateway device. In your /etc/sysconfig/network you could try adding:

GATEWAYDEV="eth0" or whatever name your card have.

when I change my gatewaydev to wireless everything stops working for me until I change it back so maybe this could help you a bit.
/Johan

johnleemk · 12-04-2003, 02:30 AM

Thank you, thank you, /bin/bash! It worked!

Now I just have to solve this problem. But even if it doesn't work, I'll just set up a proxy on another computer and use it to surf anyway.