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A7N8X (Nforce2) network trouble

Hi folks,
i'm getting desperate. I just made a fresh install of Slack 9.1 and I just can't get my two onboard network adapters to work. As the title claims i'm using an Asus A7N8X MotherBoard with two onboard chips.

One is called: NVIDIA MAC + Realtek 8201BL PHY
the other is : 3Com MAC + BroadComAC101l PHY

I installed Slack 9.1 before and at least one of em worked "out-of-the" box. No clue why it doesn't do now. I searched the forum and tried all kind of stuff.
ifconfig only reports the loopback process, ifconfig -a shows an eth0 though. lspci shows both adapters but i guess there's not the right module installed for neither of them. lsmod shows an 3xXX (cant quite remember) module wich seems to be responsible for the detection of eth0 but as said it doesnt work.

Now i used netconfig without any problems. And adsl-setup to setup my dsl. no problem either. adsl-start works fine (..CONNECTED) and after starting adsl eth0 even shows up in ifconfig. BUT i cant ping any address, and browsing the web doesnt work too.

Any help appreciated. -_-

I have the same motherboard and I use the 3com 3c59x module for the NIC and it has worked for all the distros I've tried so far.

rberry88

Yes thats the one i mean. The one loaded by default. Still, no luck... :(

What do you get when you type in "modprobe 3c59x"?

It says nothing. so i assume it loads correctly (its already loaded after booting). maybe it helps if i try to summarize what i did so far.

The important stuff of my system:
MB: ASUS A7N8X - Deluxe
Gfx: Radeon 9800XT
Sound: Soundstorm (onboard)

So after installing 9.1 Full from the CDs my first intention was to install the nforce drivers. But after installing those i got LOTS of insmod errors at startup (most of them regarding nvnet.o as far as i can tell), so i did a make uninstall to get rid of them. Since i read the 2.4.22 kernel has implemented agpgart support for nforce i recompiled the kernel, enabling agpgart (NVidia-chipset only) and DRI support. (disabling all the implemented DRI options for radeon, etc). Then i installed my Gfx-drivers (the ATI ones) partly following the instructions from ati and some advise from the forums. so far it seemed ok. X starts.
Next thing was the network... like mentioned above. I just cant figure out wich modules (kernel option maybe..?) i need. i guess 3c59x is the right one for one of the adapters, though i dont know wich that is. But no clue about the second. And i still cant ping any address (like "ping www.heise.de") or browse the net.
But adsl-start reports a connected.... i'm totally clueless.

...help... :confused:

Here is some output of lsmod and ifconfig before and after starting dsl. And a ping. Maybe anyone has seen this before!?

Code:

root@sh-hatman:~# lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P

ppp_synctty            6016  0  (unused)

ppp_async              7552  0

ppp_generic            15452  0  [ppp_synctty ppp_async]

slhc                    5040  0  [ppp_generic]

snd-pcm-oss            37252  0  (unused)

snd-mixer-oss          11992  1  [snd-pcm-oss]

usbmouse                2008  0  (unused)

keybdev                1952  0  (unused)

mousedev                4244  1

hid                    21156  0  (unused)

input                  3200  0  [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid]

usb-ohci              18888  0  (unused)

ehci-hcd              16872  0  (unused)

usbcore                58400  1  [usbmouse hid usb-ohci ehci-hcd]

snd-intel8x0          17156  3

snd-pcm                55904  2  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]

snd-timer              13252  0  [snd-pcm]

snd-ac97-codec        37240  0  [snd-intel8x0]

snd-page-alloc          6004  0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]

snd-mpu401-uart        3136  0  [snd-intel8x0]

snd-rawmidi            12512  0  [snd-mpu401-uart]

snd-seq-device          3920  0  [snd-rawmidi]

snd                    27460  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]

tuner                  10272  1  (autoclean)

tvaudio                13628  0  (autoclean) (unused)

msp3400                16396  1  (autoclean)

bttv                  94432  0  (unused)

i2c-algo-bit            6984  1  [bttv]

i2c-core              12740  0  [tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv i2c-algo-bit]

soundcore              3332  4  [snd bttv]

videodev                5664  2  [bttv]

3c59x                  26832  1

pcmcia_core            40032  0

fglrx                175112  0

ide-scsi                9424  0

agpgart                39576  0  (unused)

root@sh-hatman:~#



root@sh-hatman:~# ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:54:10:A6:04

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:1853 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:1280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

          RX bytes:125867 (122.9 Kb)  TX bytes:81724 (79.8 Kb)

          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9000



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:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:9836 (9.6 Kb)  TX bytes:9836 (9.6 Kb)



root@sh-hatman:~#



root@sh-hatman:~# adsl-start

.. Connected!

root@sh-hatman:~#



root@sh-hatman:~# ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:54:10:A6:04

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:1948 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:1348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

          RX bytes:132164 (129.0 Kb)  TX bytes:85918 (83.9 Kb)

          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x9000



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:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:9836 (9.6 Kb)  TX bytes:9836 (9.6 Kb)



ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

          inet addr:212.202.23.15  P-t-P:213.148.128.27  Mask:255.255.255.255

          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1

          RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

          RX bytes:2790 (2.7 Kb)  TX bytes:2310 (2.2 Kb)



root@sh-hatman:~#



root@sh-hatman:~# ping www.heise.de

ping: unknown host www.heise.de

root@sh-hatman:~#

Have you tried to "ping 127.0.0.1" to see if PPP works correctly?
Maybe DNS is not set?

omg, shame on me.

When doing adsl-setup i just hit Enter when configuring the DNS-server instead of entering "server". That was the whole problem. sorry. -_-