Sanjay Singhvi wrote: > 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. > This is most probably a bug as I face the same problem with wired connections in my AAOne. Wireless works beautifully. Try stopping knetworkmanager and do your ip setup through command line. Your /etc/network/interfaces should have this entry.
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Use 'sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces' After the edit, do 'sudo /etc/inet.d/networking restart'. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
