Anyone else have this problem?

I have a Compaq Presario 3000 laptop. It has a working integrated wireless card. It also has an integrated wired card.

After I installed Slackware 12, I have my wireless card off and I am trying to get my wired card working. I used the netconf setup during installation and double checked my rc.inet1.conf. I've tried making rc.wireless not executable. That made my wired card move from eth1 to eth0. But still my wired card isn't coming up. Here is some output.

'dmesg | grep eth0'
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe400, 00:08:02:d5:2b:56, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'

'ifconfig'
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)


'ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.113 netmask 255.255.255.0 up'
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

That last one kinda scares me.

For sake of space I'll put important stuff from rc.inet1.conf
# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]="10.0.0.113"
NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DHCP[0]=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""
# Default gateway IP address:
GATEWAY="10.0.0.1"

nothing else has values set in the rc.inet1.conf

Anyone got any ideas?

Try only:

I still get "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory" but that outputs only once with this command. Could this be kernel related?

Slackware 11, works just fine. Wireless card didn't get detected. I'm assuming with the latest 2.6 kernels, the wireless card is now supported.

Is the NIC driver loading? (8139too, I think)

I use Slackware 12.0 with 2.6.21.5-nosmp kernel. I found
- in /usr/src/linux-2.6.21.5/drivers/net - 8139cp and 8139too modules (wired)
- in /usr/src/linux-2.6.21.5/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx - bcm43xx (802.11b/g wireless)
so the kernel has support for your cards.

You know come to think of it, I remember in Slackware 11 it did come up as 8139too, but now it comes up as 8139.

'dmesg | grep eth0'
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe400, 00:08:02:d5:2b:56, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'

I switched to another console and did a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' and did a '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart' this is the output.

Jul 5 14:04:06 ssvegetalaptop logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
Jul 5 14:04:06 ssvegetalaptop logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
Jul 5 14:04:06 ssvegetalaptop logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig lo down
Jul 5 14:04:06 ssvegetalaptop logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
Jul 5 14:04:06 ssvegetalaptop logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo
Jul 5 14:04:07 ssvegetalaptop logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.113 broadcast 10.0.0.255 netmask
255.255.255.0
Jul 5 14:04:07 ssvegetalaptop kernel: bcm43xx: PHY disconnected
Jul 5 14:04:07 ssvegetalaptop kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Jul 5 14:04:07 ssvegetalaptop logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/route add default gw 10.0.0.1 metric 1
Jul 5 14:04:07 ssvegetalaptop logger: SIOCADDRT: No such process

Any other logs I should check or tail?

The chipset is being (correctly) identified as a Realtek 8139. What I'm asking, though, is the 8139too driver being loaded? If so, try ifconfig up eth0, then dhcpcd eth0.

You may need to put the default gateway in as well.

Ahh, yes, sorry about that.

'dmesg | grep 8139'
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe400, 00:08:02:d5:2b:56, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'

"ifconfig eth0 up" just brings up the SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

It seams I need to get my wireless card working correctly just to get my wired card to work? This doesn't make sense. Now I turned on the wireless card and made rc.wireless executable.

All my network is static ips. I don't really see the point to do dhcpcd. Unless this is a wireless thing? I'd expect this much trouble getting the wireless card to work, but I don't even need to get the wireless card to work in Linux. And unfortunatly I can't disable the wireless card in bios.

Oh yea, if this helps my laptop has bcm4306 802.11b/g rev 02. But I don't care if this works or not.

1. You don't need the wireless working to get the wired working (thankfully, or many people would be walking around dazed and looking for a bridge to jump from).

2. The module name is showing in dmesg, but is it loaded? That error sure sounds like a bad or missing module. lsmod|grep 8139

3. Didn't realize you were running static. Make sure the default gateway is added using the route command and the DNS servers are listed in /etc/resolv.conf.

Heh, I'm not used to modules. Here is the output.

'lsmod | grep 8139'
8139too 25472 0
mii 8576 1 8139too