Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, March 22, 2006 10:35 pm, Roger Searle wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, March 22, 2006 9:36 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, March 22, 2006 9:32 pm, Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, on my main work machine I have a fresh install of Suse 10 with no
connection to the network. I can ping localhost and 127.0.0.1 but not to the
router - which is
reachable from another machine.
I have set (in yast) the network card to obtain an address via dhcp and
set the default gateway to be the router (10.1.1.1). I have turned off the
firewall.
Restarting the network gives:
eth0 (DHCP) . . . . no IP address yet.... backgrounding
And still can not ping beyond localhost. ping 10.1.1.1 gives "network
is unreachable".
"/var/log/messages | grep eth0" shows numerous lines of "no IPv6
routers present" and 2 instances of "no link during initialisation" and "link
up".
What should I look for now?
Cheers,
Roger
ifconfig -a
will tell you if the card has been detected at all.
When I'm next at the machine on Friday I could post ifconfig -a. Today
I ran it earlier without the -a, it showed output for lo and eth0 - mac
address was there, there were a few TX bytes, zero RX bytes. I forget
what else...
was there an IP address?
is there some support for ipv6 that you included? It can give problems
if
you don't have an ipv6 network.
I did not do anything to add support for ipv6. I simply did the
install, noted that the network test failed, as did trying to get up a
web page and the simple pings. All I did then was go to Yast to look at
the network card settings and the firewall as above.
Oh and by the way your DHCP server should hand out the default gateway -
if it doesn't then get whoever runs it to fix it!
Yes, it does give out gateway info to the other machines on the
network. I specified the gateway after knowing there was no network
connectivity in an attempt to get it functioning.
And are you sure the network card still works? I have seen them fried.
Yes is functioning fine in Windows.
PITA if its a laptop.
Is a desktop.
ahhh well the card works then.
You could try giving it a network address manually: choose the address it
had while u were in windows (as this is unlikely to have been given out to
anyone else in the meantime)
ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.20 up
route add default gw 10.1.1.1
then some pinging.
Other things to look for in the logs are the string DHCP (usually in all
caps).
errrr - you are sure it is plugged in to the cable - believe me it is
bloody easy to miss! While you are round the back there, are the little
lights going on and off? Are they going on and off on the network switch?
OK still no success with this card. The arrival of this email proves
the card is OK (dual booting)...
NINE:/home/roger # ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.20 up
NINE:/home/roger # route add default gw 10.1.1.1
NINE:/home/roger # ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:48:1D:B7:5A
inet addr:10.1.1.20 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:48ff:fe1d:b75a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4734 (4.6 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11
NINE:/home/roger # ping 10.1.1.1
PING 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.1.1.20: icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
Any ideas? I'm totally lost when it comes to drivers and modules in
linux so no idea what to do from here.
