[solved] Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-11-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be dead. At boot, I get the following message: Setting up networking Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface

Re: [solved] Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-11-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 11. 2010 19:13:02 je Rodolfo Medina napisal(a): A few weeks ago I started the present thread. The messages from this list seemed to conclude that it was a hardware problem and no remedy to make it work. Then I bought a new usb ethernet port and upgraded the kernel to

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 22 oct 10, 14:58:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm attaching the file ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz, that you can unpack with `tar xzvf ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. It's only 12Kb. There are all those outputs: dmesg ifconfig -a uname -a modprobe sis990 lspci -nnk for the two different

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Vi, 22 oct 10, 14:58:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm attaching the file ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz, that you can unpack with `tar xzvf ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. It's only 12Kb. There are all those outputs: dmesg ifconfig -a uname -a

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 23 oct 10, 11:48:59, Rodolfo Medina wrote: `modprobe sis900' gets no output at all; the output of `ifconfig -a' is the one I sent in the file `ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. Hmm, no output usually means no error. Anything new showing in dmesg? As a sidenote, you might want to upgrade

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Sb, 23 oct 10, 11:48:59, Rodolfo Medina wrote: `modprobe sis900' gets no output at all; the output of `ifconfig -a' is the one I sent in the file `ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. Hmm, no output usually means no error. Anything new showing in

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 23 oct 10, 14:46:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Sb, 23 oct 10, 11:48:59, Rodolfo Medina wrote: `modprobe sis900' gets no output at all; the output of `ifconfig -a' is the one I sent in the file `ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. Hmm, no

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: @Rodolfo, could you please post the output of 'lspci -nnk', preferably only the part relevant to the SiS Ethernet controler. On Mi, 20 oct 10, 13:11:38, Rodolfo Medina wrote: For Etch, the `k' option is not valid: so I used Knoppix. To

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: @Rodolfo, could you please post the output of 'lspci -nnk', preferably only the part relevant to the SiS Ethernet controler. For Etch, the `k' option is not valid: so I used Knoppix. To be sure, I posted the whole output of 'lspci -nnk' to:

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 20 oct 10, 13:11:38, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: @Rodolfo, could you please post the output of 'lspci -nnk', preferably only the part relevant to the SiS Ethernet controler. For Etch, the `k' option is not valid: so I used Knoppix.

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Here's your network card. Very interesting that it didn't show up in the grep... are you aware of any differences (for example booting with a different kernel)? Could you please let us see the full output of 'dmesg'. If you are worried about

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-19 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:23:02 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Andrei Popescu writes: Here's your network card. Very interesting that it didn't show up in the grep... are you aware of any differences (for example booting with a different kernel)? Could you please let us see the full output of

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 19 oct 10, 09:56:28, Camaleón wrote: @Andrei, could it be related to this old bug? ip1394 not needed and causing trouble http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=238979 I'd say not, that bug looks more like a naming issue, but blacklisting that module is worth a try anyway.

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:46:07 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: What is the brand and model of your motherboard? I don't know... How can I work that out? As root: dmidecode -t 2 Here it the output of dmidecode -t 2: # dmidecode 2.8 SMBIOS 2.3 present.

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Greg Madden p...@gci.net writes: One thing to be absolutely sure about is that the device is on a hardware compatibility list (hcl) or has positive Linux reviews.. I don't use such devices but in my experience, a device needs to be shown to work reliably with a kernel version, by more than

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:05:20 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Camaleón writes: As root: dmidecode -t 2 Here it the output of dmidecode -t 2: # dmidecode 2.8 SMBIOS 2.3 present. Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Uniwill Product Name:

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Lu, 18 oct 10, 14:06:08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Here it is the output of `lspci': 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:35:37 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Lu, 18 oct 10, 14:06:08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Here it is the output of `lspci': 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:35:37 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Lu, 18 oct 10, 14:06:08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Here it is the output of `lspci': 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) Andrei

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 18 oct 10, 21:29:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: It seems that I don't manage to use that page. Then I'm attaching dmesg. The file is empty as well. Try: dmesg dmesg.txt and then attach the file dmesg.txt Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net writes: On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Morgan Gangwere 0.fracta...@gmail.com writes: dmesg | grep eth gives the folloing output: eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 +

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Camaleón writes: But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter (firewire to ethernet)? :-? I can't answer to this question. . The file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules is the following: # Firewire

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: The file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules is the following: # Firewire device 00030d53255c8616 (ohci1394) SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTRS{address}==00:03:0d:53:25:5c:86:16, NAME=eth0 # PCI device 0x1039:0x0900 (sis900)

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:46:07 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: What is the brand and model of your motherboard? I don't know... How can I work that out? As root: dmidecode -t 2 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:46:07 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: What is the brand and model of your motherboard? I don't know... How can I work that out? As root: dmidecode -t 2 All right, I'll post it as soon as I get home. Do you think there are hopes

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:57:46 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Camaleón writes: As root: dmidecode -t 2 All right, I'll post it as soon as I get home. Do you think there are hopes the ethernet device can be saved? While the system cannot detect it, there is no chance :-( If it's and

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 17 October 2010 01:40:44 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net writes: On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Morgan Gangwere 0.fracta...@gmail.com writes: dmesg | grep eth gives the folloing output: eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 17. 10. 2010 19:39:05 je Greg Madden napisal(a): Time spent on compatibility is far shorter than time trying to get some device with a unknown chipset working. Or money spent on replacing it with a working one ... +1 -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
you could try using any live cd (e.g. debian live cd) to see if it is the software/hardware that are problematic 2010/10/16 Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be dead. At boot, I get the following message: Setting

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:15:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (please, open a new thread if you change the thematic of the e-mail) The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be dead. At boot, I get the following message: Setting up networking Configuring

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be dead. At boot, I get the following message: Setting up networking Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:41:05 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (...) Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com writes: you could try using any live cd (e.g. debian live cd) to see if it is the software/hardware that are problematic Camaleón writes: (please, open a new thread if you change the

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 16. 10. 2010 18:15:12 je Camaleón napisal(a): With Knoppix 6.0, I ran `ifconfig -a' and got the following output: loLink encap:Local Loopback LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be dead. At boot, I get the following message: Setting up networking Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200 Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] Had any electrical storms? Switches that have been acting up? New carpeting? Power outages? Brownouts? Etc? Sounds like the device is busted, frankly. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH