On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Darrough, James <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you have a router attached to your Comcast modem?
No, although Netstat shows routing table info on the old machine but shows nothing on the new machine. > If not, then your modem is not doing DHCP and issuing an ip address (maybe). > Or you have your network setup on the Linux machine for static ip. Currently, both machines are set to automatically use DHCP, which I suppose raises the question why that works on the old box but not on the new one. Best regards, Paul > > Regards, Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of marbux > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:12 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: [Eug-lug] Ethernet problems on "new" used machine > > Hi, folks, > > Can't seem to work this through with the aid of Google. I'm down to > seeking help. > > I recently acquired a second, used AMD 64-bit box with an ASUS > motherboard. It came with WinXP Pro and didn't get an internet > connection to Comcast. Acting on a suspicion that the onboard ethernet > connection was dead, I ordered a Gigabit ethernet card. While awaiting > its delivery, I wiped the hard drives and installed Ubuntu 9.10 > 64-bit. Received and installed the ethernet card. No joy. > > A few things I've tried without success, in no particular order: > > -- Selecting eth0 as the connection type in Network Tools. > -- Selecting "connect automatically" under Network Connections eth0 > properties. > -- Pulling the card and seeing if I could revive the onboard ethernet > connection. > -- Rotating cards in the machine in hopes of resolving an imaginable > IRQ conflict > -- Installing Ubuntu 32-bit as a virtual machine on my old box so I > could compare configuration details. > -- Confirmed that the right driver for the card is installed and active. > -- Installed Puppy 4.3.1 on both machines and compared configuration > details (my experience is that Puppy does better at auto-configuring > for hardware than Ubuntu). > -- etc. > > All of which has got me nowhere over several days. > > This is new turf for me because ethernet connections have always just > worked for me. So I'm unsure what information folks will need to > assist me. > > Appreciate some hand-holding here. > > Best regards, > > Paul > > > > > > > -- > Universal Interoperability Council > <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
