Network fail to connect

[mistrynitesh]

Re: Network fail to connect

I have problems similar to jwhibdon

When I click on the "Network Settings" in the "System Settings" menu, the network interface tab does not list any interface or device.

When I go to System Settings-->Advanced tab-->System Services--> Networking and click on Start, it gives the same message as jwhibdon has posted.

* Reconfiguring network interfaces... SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
Failed to bring up eth0.
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 134993416
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up eth1.
eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth2.pid with pid 134993416
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up eth2.
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.ath0.pid with pid 134993416
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up ath0.
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 134993416
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.

just that instead of "Reconfiguring" it says "Configuring"


I tried the option of "Wake-on-LAN" in windows, as suggested on the forum posted by Unicorn

http://kerneltrap.org/node/14012 (?)

but still it shows the same error.

So I tried another solution provided by on the same forum, ie to download the driver from the website indicated there.
I have a Realtek RTL8139 Family Ethernet LAN Card.
However, following table is displayed on the website with NO link to download the driver for Linux

Unix (Linux)
Description Version Update Time FileSize Downlod
Site 1Site2 Site3
Linux driver (driver has built-in the kernel)
N/A 2007/3/12 0k - - -
Packet driver
3.44 2006/4/24 31k GO GO GO
Unixware 7.2.x
2.20 2005/10/11 15k GO GO GO
Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10
2.1.1 2004/9/13 27k GO GO GO
Beta rtls driver (V1.20) for Sun Solaris Express users.
1.20beta 2004/5/26 22k GO GO GO
FreeBSD
1.20 2003/9/15 30k GO GO GO
Slackware 8.0 (kernel 2.2.19 and 2.4.5)
1.0 2002/3/14 51k GO GO GO
SCO Unix 5.0.X
5.00 2001/12/20 28k GO GO GO

Does this mean that my LAN Card does not have support for Linux?

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