Ethernet problems

PipeDreams · 02-11-2006, 08:10 PM

I just upgraded my cpu and motherboard and slackware would not boot so I re-installed.Now I have no ethernet connection.Live discs wont connect either.

New board is MSI k8n,Nvidia Nforce4 chipset.

During install I selected to start dhcp on tty0 as with my old board.It had onboard ethernet also.

I noticed during slack shutdown it said sbin/dhcpcd not running?

Not sure what info I need to give.

Thanks for any help.

comprookie2000 · 02-11-2006, 08:45 PM

What happens when you
modprobe forcedeth
if it loads try
dhcpcd ethx
If it doesn't load you will need

Code:

Device Drivers -->
     Network device support -->
          Network device support[*]
          Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) -->
               Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit[*]
               EISA, VLB, PCI nad on board controllers[*]
               Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL) [*/M]

May only be in the new kernels
look at dmesg and/or lspci to see what kind of card it is but I think it is a
integrated nForce2 NIC

PipeDreams · 02-11-2006, 09:31 PM

Quote:

What happens when you
modprobe forcedeth
if it loads try
dhcpcd ethx

I entered both in a term and it returned me to a root prompt.No errors.

lspci said :
03:00.0 Marvell Technology Group Ltd.88e8053 Gigabit ethernet controller (rev 15).

If I choose another kernel on install will one of them support this eth card ?

Thanks

comprookie2000 · 02-11-2006, 09:34 PM

Post ifconfig
route -n
ping www.google.com -c 3
some more links
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=369090
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverSearchResults.do

PipeDreams · 02-11-2006, 10:12 PM

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
That is ifconf.Some reason route -n and ping results didnt save.

I will get those and read the links.I'll post back tomorrow.

Thanks alot

kornerr · 02-12-2006, 02:59 AM

Sorry for getting into this thread, but I have ethernet problems too, and want to ask what some output mean.

Quote:

root@darkstar:/etc/rc.d# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:EB:AB

4:97
inet addr:10.104.4.61 Bcast:10.104.4.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15418 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1094173 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:300 (300.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

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:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3192 (3.1 Kb) TX bytes:3192 (3.1 Kb)

"tcpdump" prints some messages till I Ctrl+C it.
"tcpd" lives for about 5 seconds and quits.
What does this all mean? Does this mean my ethernet connection is established?

Thanks.

comprookie2000 · 02-12-2006, 04:26 AM

That looks fine now just check
route -n and cat /etc/resolv.conf

kornerr · 02-12-2006, 04:55 AM

output of "route -n":

Quote:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.104.4.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 10.104.4.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0

There's smth wrong here, I think, cuz I have 10.104.4.61 IP and 10.104.4.1 Gateway.
What can be wrong?

uselpa · 02-12-2006, 05:18 AM

kornerr,
Why do you think this is wrong?
What problems do you have, you haven't described them.

PipeDreams · 02-12-2006, 08:41 AM

OK here is the rest.

root@phat:~# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
root@phat:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search phat.org
root@phat:~# ping www.google.com -c 3
ping: unknown host www.google.com

AS I said with my old modo I automatically knew to choose to start dhcp at startup,was usually located at tty0 or eth0,etc.I also have cable internet(6Mb D/L

)via motorola surfboard.I dont need to enter proxy or pass.

Has any of this changed with my new mobo or is it likely a driver issue?

Thanks

kornerr · 02-12-2006, 09:36 AM

uselpa, my settings are wrong because I cannot access Internet.

comprookie2000 · 02-12-2006, 11:08 AM

PipeDreams When you do ifconfig there needs to be something more than lo or you will never connect. It is the mobo. If you can't get the ethernet to work that came with the motherboard, install a pci card that is supported.

tobyl · 02-12-2006, 11:49 AM

maybe the nvidia n-force driver could help you?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0310.html

(then run netconfig)

tobyl

PipeDreams · 02-12-2006, 02:05 PM

Quote:

install a pci card that is supported.

I was going to try that but we are having a blizzard.I'll go tomorrow and get one if I cant get this one working.

I will try the nvidia drivers as well.

Thanks for the help.

PipeDreams · 02-12-2006, 10:03 PM

Quote:

[root@bingo jeff]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
24.151.240.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 24.151.240.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

That looks a little better.

Thats Mandriva 2006.Since most of my OS's were so broken they wouldnt hardly boot from the hardware change, I formatted both disks(12 distros).Except the win partition.It was born broken so why bother.

Now i have 140GB to build a 64 bit system on.

The Marvell driver was offered on re-install by the mandrake installer BTW.

Thanks for the help