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**dwidmann** · Jan 31, 2007, 11:09 AM

Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

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

**Lilac_Haze** · Jan 31, 2007, 02:03 PM

Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

Thanks for the reply.

sudo/etc/init.d/networking start

answers

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**dwidmann** · Feb 01, 2007, 12:20 AM

Re: 6.10 amd64 doesn't see my LAN

Ouch, well that's certainly not good!

Try installing/reinstall the "netbase" package.

**Lilac_Haze** · Feb 01, 2007, 02:33 AM

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

**Lilac_Haze** · Feb 06, 2007, 12:39 PM

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

**D1SxEyes** · Feb 07, 2007, 04:22 PM

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

**Tuxgrrrl** · Feb 07, 2007, 06:05 PM

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?

**Nakrull** · Feb 08, 2007, 01:50 AM

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

**javierrivera** · Feb 08, 2007, 02:39 AM

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.

**Lilac_Haze** · Feb 08, 2007, 04:02 AM

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

**javierrivera** · Feb 08, 2007, 04:29 AM

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.

**Lilac_Haze** · Feb 08, 2007, 10:55 AM

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

**javierrivera** · Feb 08, 2007, 11:26 AM

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.

**Lilac_Haze** · Feb 08, 2007, 12:12 PM

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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