Dear All,
Having a problem with getting the network with my MTNL modem
through ethernet. I might add that I have MTNL ethernet modems (ADSL)
in my home, my office and my father's office. However, though DHCP is
enabled on all three, my laptop (Acer Aspire One) does not seem able
to connect at any of the three. When I ask for a new connection after
connecting the wire (the wire gets detected so I don't get the "no
carrier" message) I get the state of device eth0 as "ip configuration"
by hovering the cursor over the icon of Knetworkmanager. The ehternet
light lights up on the router and the little light at the ethernet
point on my laptop also lights up. So I think the cable is ok in all
places. The desktops at all the three places are working. One curious
thing is that Knetworkmanager tries to make a connection and gives the
state for decive eth0 as "ip configuration" even when there is no wire
in the ethernet jack if I ask for a new connection. In fact, even when
there is no wire, I do not get the "no carrier" message. The
connections at the mtnl router level are by PPPoE.
The result I get for ifconfig is as follows:
san...@sanjay-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:68:c7:8a:a8
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:68ff:fec7:8aa8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:1577058210 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:15 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:219 Base address:0x2000
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:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5058 (5.0 KB) TX bytes:5058 (5.0 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:69:47:43:99
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 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:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-22-69-47-43-99-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 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:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
If there is any more information required please let me know. I am
what they call a "noob" and learnt what linux means only about four
months ago.
I use Kubuntu 8.10 and have the Knetworkmanager on it. I have not
installed nm v 0.7 or any other.
With regards,
Sanjay
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