knetworkmanager - ADSL Router - Wired Network - ACER Laptop [Solved, sort of]

[mae]

Hi All,
I tried finding a previous post to help me to no avail.
This is my problem.
- Took laptop to work and tried to connect to LAN. Did not work
- Came home wanted to connect to Internet = No go.
I have tried to duplicate settings from another machine to laptop, but it does not work.
When I click on icon in taskbar the Device shows "No Active Device"?
- Router is ADSL 4 port Ethernet.
- Laptop ACER Travelmate 2312LC_L
- knetworkmanager 0.2 (Using KDE 3.5.8)

Please help

[Malekish]

Re: knetworkmanager - ADSL Router - Wired Network - ACER Laptop

Try the network manager and see if you can see the ethernet card (by default it should be eth0) and see if you can configure it or have it brought up and down in there.

If you can't, try the following commands to bring the card down and back up.

sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
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[mae]

Re: knetworkmanager - ADSL Router - Wired Network - ACER Laptop

Thks for response.

I do not see anything happening when I try the commands?

I can right click the shortcut in taskbar, go to Manual Configuration and it shows in the Network Interface TAB the following. Interface = eth0. IP adress = empty. Protocol = dhcp. State = Enabled.

[mae]

Re: knetworkmanager - ADSL Router - Wired Network - ACER Laptop

Somehow with all the fiddling I am able to connect to www once again, although not "Automatic" I have to "manually" insert IP every time??

The "icon" in taskbar shows connection "on" all the time even when I disconnect LAN cable.