I would say... " open case, move sound card and network card to different
PCI slots, close case and reboot, go into BOIS and disable P_N_P aware OS,
boot into LINUX, , As root, run linuxconfig, from a console, and set up
hardware and networking from there. then see what's up... maybe you have not
set it "all the way up" again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Fortin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mandrake Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Internet connection broken
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Mandrake folk: duplicate eth entries... though the core issue appears to
be
> IRQ conflict.
>
> > > > The other day I was annoyed to find that AT&T @Home cable had
changed my
> > IP
> > > > address without my knowledge. I played around in Linuxconf and
> > > DrakProfile
> > > > to change system settings to reflect that. Next time I booted up,
my
> > > > internet connection didn't work. Now whenever I try to make
connections
> > > to
> > > > remote sites, I get "unknown host."
> > >
> > > You are complaining about a static address issue, yet below, you say
you
> > are
> > > using DHCP (DYNAMIC Host Configuration Protocol); which is it...?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure it's static. But I'm also pretty sure that my IP
address has
> > indeed changed. Is it possible for static IPs to do that? This is the
first
> > time it's changed ever (stayed the same for over a year, since we got
cable
> > installed). But I always did need to type "DHCPCD -I C428830-A -h
home.com"
> > go get the network running when I logged in. Then I put it in some
startup
> > script so I didn't need to keep typing it.
>
> DHCP "leases" an IP address; sounds like you've been getting the same IP
address
> every time... just lucky I guess.
>
> > > > Here's what bootup tells me:
> > > >
> > > > network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
> > > > ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
> > > > network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded
> > > > ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization.
> > > > network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
> > >
> > > Have you checked your NETMASK?
> >
> > Uhh...What is that?
>
> Usually looks like 255.255.255.0 or somesuch; not important right now
since you
> have other problems (below)....
>
> > > > I don't know why this would be. I've checked my settings in
Windows,
> > and
> > > it
> > > > appears as if everything is the same in both systems.
> > > >
> > > > Other notes:
> > > > NIC is enabled, to use DHCP.
> > >
> > > So changing your IP address should not have been an issue.
> >
> > I guess not.
> >
> > > give us the output of:
> > >
> > > ifconfig
> > lo Link encap:Local Loopback # Is this bad news? :)
> > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> > RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> No, but the lack of an eth0 is... hmm... I must've forgot to ask for
"dmesg"
> output... that might be useful since the ethernet appears to be
missing...
>
> > > 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
>
> Only a loopback address... to be expected since eth0 is not up; but this
> situation will not let any packets leave this machine.
>
> > > lsmod
> > Module Size Used by
> > parport_pc 7568 0 (autoclean)
> > parport 7744 0 (autoclean) [parport_pc]
> > lockd 32208 1 (autoclean)
> > sunrpc 54640 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
> > autofs 9456 2 (autoclean)
> > cs4232 2960 0
> > ad1848 16848 0 [cs4232]
> > uart401 6384 0 [cs4232]
> > sound 58368 0 [cs4232 ad1848 uart401]
> > soundlow 464 0 [sound]
> > soundcore 2800 6 [sound]
> > nls_cp437 3952 8 (autoclean)
> > vfat 9408 4 (autoclean)
> > fat 30432 4 (autoclean) [vfat]
> > supermount 14224 2 (autoclean)
>
> No eth driver either.
>
> > >
> > > and the contents of:
> > >
> > > /etc/modules.conf
> > alias net-pf-4 ipx
> > pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> > alias usb-interface usb-ohci
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
> > alias sound-slot-0 cs4232
> > options sound dmabuf=1
> > alias midi opl3
> > options opl3 io=0x388
> > options cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=10
#mpuirq
> > _should be 11
> > options via-rhine irq=10
>
> So the sound card is grabbing the eth interrupt... I'm not familiar with
that
> card... need to see "dmesg" output...
>
> > alias eth1 via-rhine #I think DrakProfile set this up. Ok
to
> > delete?
>
> Sure. I've seen other mails about duplicate eth entries; didn't pay
attention
> to the details... I'm re-inserting expert list in case someone at
Mandrake
> needs to see this situation first hand.
>
> > alias eth0 via-rhine #This is what worked before
> > > /etc/resolv.conf
> > search cdrrpd1.ia.home.com
> >
> > nameserver 24.2.240.33
> > nameserver 24.2.240.34
>
> These resolve to proxy1 and proxy2.cdrrpd1.ia.home.com
>
> > # ppp temp entry
> > > /etc/sysconfig/network
> > NETWORKING=yes
> > FORWARD_IPV4=no
> > DHCP_HOSTNAME=C428830-A.cdrrpd1.ia.home.com
> > HOSTNAME=C428830-A.cdrrpd1.ia.home.com
> > DOMAINNAME=cdrrpd1.ia.home.com
> > GATEWAY=24.22.240.1
>
> The gateway has no DNS entry; but I can ping it; also, unusual that it
would
> have an address outside your subnet (see my comment about IP and mask
below).
>
> > GATEWAYDEV=""
>
> This should read ...="eth0" but was probably clobbered because the eth
interface
> is not detected.
>
> > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> > IPADDR=24.22.96.170 #This is my old IP address
> > NETMASK="" #What does this mean?
> > NETWORK=24.2.240.0
> > BROADCAST=24.2.243.255
> > ONBOOT=yes
>
> Something is seriously wrong here... NETMASK is missing; based on
BROADCAST and
> NETWORK, NETMASK probably should be 255.255.252.0 (aka /22; yup, a legit
> non-byte-boundary mask)... However, IPADDR is not within
NETWORK/BROADCAST
> space... you may have gotten a partial DHCP config...
>
> > > /proc/interrupts
> > CPU0
> > 0: 141569 XT-PIC timer
> > 1: 1628 XT-PIC keyboard
> > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> > 5: 0 XT-PIC Crystal audio controller
> > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> > 10: 0 XT-PIC MPU-401 UART # MPU-301 is on IRQ 11
> > 12: 14273 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> > 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> > 14: 75183 XT-PIC ide0
> > 15: 20 XT-PIC ide1
> > NMI: 0
>
> Gotta resolve this interrupt problem first.
>
> > > /proc/ioports
> > 0000-001f : dma1
> > 0020-003f : pic1
> > 0040-005f : timer
> > 0060-006f : keyboard
> > 0070-007f : rtc
> > 0080-008f : dma page reg
> > 00a0-00bf : pic2
> > 00c0-00df : dma2
> > 00f0-00ff : fpu
> > 0170-0177 : ide1
> > 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> > 02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
> > 0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART # Window's "System Properties" says
0330-0331
>
> What does it say for your eth card (which is missing here too)?
>
> > 0376-0376 : ide1
> > 03c0-03df : vga+
> > 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> > 0534-0537 : Crystal audio controller
> > 7090-7097 : ide0
> > 7098-709f : ide1
> >
> > So...is it okay to play around with some of these values, and it'll
effect my
> > system on the next startup? I don't want to make things worse... :)
> > As you may have noticed, I commented on all the things I saw as
> > potential/probable problems. # comments are always valid in config
files,
> > right?
> >
> > Please forgive me if my earlier post annoyed you. I was a bit irratible
that
> > my internet connection wasn't working, you see. Internet is my
lifeblood.
> > Yeah yeah, I use AOL for email. I see the irony too.
> >
> > Thanks a lot. I'm waiting for a go-ahead <g>
>
> Has the sound card always been there? Hopefully I've provided enough
analysis
> as to what's wrong for someone (Mandrake?) to help with the duplicate ethN
> entries and IRQ conflict while I head off to sleep.
>
> "dmesg" output might help; but enough info here indicates a hardware issue
may
> be the root cause... though the duplicate eth stuff is likely a software
issue.
>
> Pierre
>
> > Dan
> > ICQ 4689648
> >
>
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