Re: [gentoo-user] Acer TM2313 NIC problems
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 06:20 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this weekend. Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection. The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading, finding the card and bringing the link up. The lights on the NIC are both (continous) lighting. If I do an ``ifconfig eth0 down'' followed by an ``ifconfig eth0 up`` the lights turn both off for about one second and then both on again. Did you assign an address when you did ifconfig eth0 up? Or does your network use DHCP, and if so, did you run dhcpcd/dhclient to get an address? The output of ifconfig -a, route -n, and cat /etc/conf.d/net might give us some more clues. -Richard Thanks Richard, I've configured eth0 using net-setup (wired network, fixed address). At the moment I can't send any output of anything. The comp now for about one week belongs to an authorized service partner of Acer. There are messages apout resetting the PCI bus and about a failing and resetting hda in the syslog. These messages convinced me to give it away for a while. Regards Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Acer TM2313 NIC problems
Hi, I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this weekend. Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection. The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading, finding the card and bringing the link up. The lights on the NIC are both (continous) lighting. If I do an ``ifconfig eth0 down'' followed by an ``ifconfig eth0 up`` the lights turn both off for about one second and then both on again. I see the link coming up in the log and in dmesg. Trying to ping some address I get network unreachable. The network connection itself works. This is tested with another (Acer) notebook. Due to the fact that there are a couple of messages about disconnecting and connecting PCI devices in the log I'm wondering about a hardware problem. Well this all don't happen with Gentoo. Acer (fortunately) has a Linpus Linux installed on delivery. So I have a means to do some recovery. I've tried this of course with the Gentoo install CD too. Further on I've tried Knoppix, Mandrake, SuSe, Ubuntu and Fedora. I know I've seen some messages about Acer notebooks on this list. Unfortunately I cannot search the archives without a network connection. My chief tolerates if I'm writing a mail during working time. I'm afraid he won't tolerate me spending hours searching something private on the WEB. If someone knows about issues with the sis900.c module please let me know. Thanks in advance Frank PS: ... and yes, I did RTFM ``menuconfig'' points to. ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Acer TM2313 NIC problems
Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this weekend. Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection. The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading, finding the card and bringing the link up. The lights on the NIC are both (continous) lighting. If I do an ``ifconfig eth0 down'' followed by an ``ifconfig eth0 up`` the lights turn both off for about one second and then both on again. Did you assign an address when you did ifconfig eth0 up? Or does your network use DHCP, and if so, did you run dhcpcd/dhclient to get an address? The output of ifconfig -a, route -n, and cat /etc/conf.d/net might give us some more clues. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
