Edgy network card problems

[jamierc]

Hi all,

I have a realtek 8139 network card in a laptop running Edgy.
I use DHCP to connect to the net, which works fine using suse and windows.
So far I have been unsuccesful connecting to the net with kubuntu.

I've tried modprobe 8139too

It seems to be waiting to be allocated dhcp settings on port 67 using 255.255.255.255

any ideas where I can start to find out whats going wrong?

thanks

[javierrivera]

Re: Edgy network card problems

You can try to restart the network from the command line

$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

It could give you some useful error messanges.

You can also look at the network configuration files, mainly /etc/network/interfaces/.

The ifconfig and route commands can give some useful tips too.

Javier.

[jamierc]

Re: Edgy network card problems

a bit of playing around and a bit more of RTFM helped me here - just for other people with the same problem I added 'irqpoll' to the /boot/grub/menu.1st file which solved the problem.

I've no idea why...

J

[javierrivera]

Re: Edgy network card problems

I had to use it some years ago, in gentoo.

Seens like some kernel bug, you usually know that you need to use it when you see:

IRQ n: Nobody cared...

in dmesg.

Javier.

[jamierc]

Re: Edgy network card problems

That was exactly how I got there in the end, frmo dmesg. Kubuntu was kind enough to tell me to try booting up with irqpoll.