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    6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

    Hi

    I have just installed Kubuntu 6.10 amd64 on my Windows XP PC. everything went well except that it couldn,t see my LAN connection for the internet and my on-board sound. The sound can wait, but I need the internet. It's a bit like losing a hand without it.

    I have run ifconfig with this result:

    link encap: Local Loopback
    inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
    UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
    RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:0(0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)

    I'm not sure what this means and I hope I've copied it correctly. (Haven't figured out how to print yet.)

    My pc is only about 3 months old and according to my mobo user guide my chipset is: NVIDIA nForce 430/GeForce 6100
    It also lists my LAN as: ATTANSIC gigabit LAN PHY

    I hope someone understands all this and can help me

    Many thanks
    Lilac_Haze

    #2
    Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

    Hmmm, what does "sudo /etc/init.d/networking start" do?

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      #3
      Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

      Thanks for the reply.

      sudo/etc/init.d/networking start
      answers
      not found

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        #4
        Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

        Ouch, well that's certainly not good!

        Try installing/reinstall the "netbase" package.

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          #5
          Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

          I had a feeling it wasn't terrific.

          OK I will try, but at this point in time I'm not sure how! Will search around and see what I can find out.

          Many Thanks

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            #6
            Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

            Hi,

            Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. Anyway, I couldn't find how to install/reinstall the netbase package so I did a reinstall of the whole distro. Still no ethernet. Then I finally found out how to install stuff. I looked to see what wasn't installed on my system and found "network manager" was missing so I installed it.

            While I was looking for that I came across "lshw", so I went into konsole and did "sudo lshw". This gave me 9 pages of info on my system but nowhere is there mentioned either LAN or ethernet. This seems vey puzzling to me.

            Could some kind soul please comment.

            Thanks

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              #7
              Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

              Try ifconfig eth0 any.valid.ip.address up

              Obviously, replace any.valid.ip.address with a unique ip address for your local network (normally 192.168.1.1-254 or 192.168.0.1-254

              If that doesn't work, you're in a bit of a pickle, and will need some extra help.

              D1SxEyes

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                #8
                Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

                Does the OS see any Lan at all?

                Did you examine your

                sudo network-admin

                Look in the pulldown for eth0 , lo, ppp0 etc
                if it dosent show eth0, it may still be visible to the OS but not the Network Manager.

                Did you try

                lspci

                to see if a lan is listed?

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                  #9
                  Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

                  in the 9 pages |shw printed did something like this appear the data should be the according ones to your sys

                  *-pci
                  description: PCI bridge
                  product: 82801 PCI Bridge
                  vendor: Intel Corporation
                  physical id: 1e
                  bus info: pci@00:1e.0
                  version: c2
                  width: 32 bits
                  clock: 33MHz
                  capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
                  *-network
                  description: Ethernet interface
                  product: 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
                  vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
                  physical id: d
                  bus info: pci@01:0d.0
                  logical name: eth0
                  version: 13
                  serial: 00:17:31:6a:10:d8
                  size: 100MB/s
                  capacity: 1GB/s
                  width: 32 bits
                  clock: 66MHz
                  capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt
                  -fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegociation
                  configuration: autonegociation=on broadcast=yes driver=skge driv
                  erversion=1.5 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.1.1.4 link=yes multicast=yes port=t
                  wisted pair speed=100MB/s
                  resources: iomemory:fbffc000-fbffffff ioport:e800-e8ff irq:193

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                    #10
                    Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

                    It seens like the system identifies your card and assign it to eth0.

                    What I would do is opening a terminal and typing:

                    Code:
                    dmesg
                    This will give you the kernel log. Just look for some error, or something related to the net (contains the words net and eth0) ans post it back here.

                    The most likely IMHO source of the problem is a bad config file, so you can also try:

                    Code:
                    cat /etc/network/interfaces
                    And post the result back.

                    This info should help us debug the problem.

                    Javier.

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                      #11
                      Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

                      Wow, thanks for all your replies, everyone.

                      Ok here goes.

                      D1SxEyes if I

                      ifconfig eth0 any.valid.ip.address up I get
                      any valid.ip.address: Hostname lookup failure

                      Tuxgrrrl if I
                      sudo network-admin I get
                      command not found
                      if I
                      lspci there is no lan or eth or even net mentioned.

                      Nakrull in my 9 pages of lshw there is no mention of network at all.

                      javierrivera in the eight pages that dmesg produced the only metion of NET (no Eth0 mentioned) is to tell me that in different instances
                      NET: Registered protocol family 16
                      NET: Registered protocol family 2
                      NET: Registered protocol family 1
                      NET: Registered protocol family 8
                      NET: Registered protocol family 20

                      One thing I can see is
                      PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". Ifit helps, post a report
                      Is this something I type int Konsole again as a command?

                      cat /etc/network/interfaces gives me
                      #This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
                      #and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

                      #The loopback network interface
                      auto lo
                      iface lo inet loopback

                      iface dsl-provider inet ppp
                      provider dsl-provider


                      Hope this helps


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                        #12
                        Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

                        Originally posted by Lilac_Haze
                        Wow, thanks for all your replies, everyone.
                        Well, maybe linux has some problem with your LAN, but we got a great community .

                        javierrivera in the eight pages that dmesg produced the only metion of NET (no Eth0 mentioned) is to tell me that in different instances
                        It's strange, if the kernel founds you card it should say something about eth0.

                        We can check if the right modules are loaded. Please use this command :

                        Code:
                        $lsmod | grep sk
                        We are trying to know if some of the drivers that are said to work with this card (skge, sk98lin ) are loaded.

                        PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". Ifit helps, post a report
                        Is this something I type int Konsole again as a command?
                        No. It's a kernel boot parameter. You should add it in the grub configuration file, /boot/grub/menu.lst at the end of the first kernel line.

                        But, it's the last thing that I'd try.

                        cat /etc/network/interfaces gives me
                        Ok. You can try to add the following bit to that file.

                        Code:
                        # The primary network interface
                        auto eth0
                        iface eth0 inet dhcp
                        It won't work if there is a kernel problem, i.e. the module is not loaded, or there is any kind of problem with it.

                        But it could work if it is just a misconfiguration.

                        After modifying it you should restart the network.

                        Code:
                        $sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
                        Javier.

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                          #13
                          Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

                          Hi Tuxgrrrl

                          Thanks again for your replies. I think you have me confused with Nakrull. Nakrull's system has the Marvell Gigabit Ethernet Controller not mine. According to my mobo hand book mine is an ATTANSIC Gigabit LAN PHY. I don't know what this means but I don't think that linux likes it much.

                          Also thanks to javierrivera, you're right this is a great community.
                          $lsmod |grep sk
                          as Tuxgrrrl says returns a prompt

                          I have tried to add your code to the
                          /etc/network/interface
                          but kate says that I dont have permission. Apparently its's read only.

                          I won't even try the irq thing at this stage.

                          Thanks

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                            #14
                            Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

                            Originally posted by Lilac_Haze
                            I think you have me confused with Nakrull.
                            Well... this threath is getting quite confusing . There are two people asking for help and another helping and asking at the same time.



                            $lsmod |grep sk
                            as Tuxgrrrl says returns a prompt
                            Of course it does, it's looking for the Marvell gigabit module .

                            I don't know what module does your card need. If you type the lspci output, we can find it searching in google but the model number and model.

                            Code:
                            I have tried to add your code to the 
                            [quote]/etc/network/interface[/quote] 
                            but kate says that I dont have permission
                            Have you tried to right-click it and select "edit as root"?.

                            Javier.

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                              #15
                              Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

                              Thanks javierrivera you are very patient.

                              lspci shows

                              00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corpoation Unknown device 03ea (rev a1)
                              00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03e0 (rev a2)
                              00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03eb (rev a2)
                              00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03f5 (rev a2)
                              00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03f4 (rev a2)
                              00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03f1 (rev a2)
                              00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03f2 (rev a2)
                              00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03f3 (rev a1)
                              00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03f0 (rev a2)
                              00:06.0 IDE Interface: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03ec (rev a2)
                              00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03ef (rev a2)
                              00:08.0 IDE Interface: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03f6 (rev a2)
                              00:08.1 IDE Interface: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03f6 (rev a2)
                              00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03e8 (rev a2)
                              00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03e9 (rev a2)
                              00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03e9 (rev a2)
                              00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d0 (rev a2)
                              00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
                              00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
                              00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
                              00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

                              Hope this means something to you

                              Thanks again

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