RiccardoPini

Hi to all. I think we can consider closed the topic. Im using an ethernet modem/router (not switch) with only one eth port and it works. Actually ive tried three diff models and all of them worked. Also for the Mandriva technical assistance all it's due to a particular hardware configuration. I would suggest for the ones have to deal with Libero isp provider in italy to disable the ipv6 protocol as suggested and taught in this forum and topic for avoid connection problems. Thanks to all guys! :D Ric

Hi to all! I have two Sony lcd monitors. One is perfectly recognized by Mandriva with its code under MCC monitor configuration, the second reports nothingbut when i configure the ati x700 card it prompts me to choose which monitor is attached to the head#1 and which at the head#2. Trying to choose for the head2 a custom or a plug and play brings to an attempt to use but then it returns to one monitor only. Is there a how to for configure two monitor under Mandriva here? I think im missing some steps coz during the boot both are working. One is attached through a dvi-dvi connection while the second through vga-vga. Thanks, Ric

I ve tried a simply eth modem and it works perfectly!

Honestly i dont consider it as informatic Ok so ill move to this irq check under /cat and also moving away the scsi. I'd like to remove it, load an evaluation version and see how it reacts, if it wont work i think i could say it's the motherboard.

More or less like mine, but i use the scsi. Ill check the irqs, maybe under windows was working due to a diff irq handling.

Ahh thank you! I had this test in my mind to do it yesterday eve but didnt know where in Mandriva see the log of the interrupts. So i went on working using the ifconfig so do the same purpose. Ive to use the scsi coz it drives my LVM hdds... :)

Sorry i always forgot to report ive a scsi controller a 29160N which ive seen yesterday it itakes the irq11, always. If i plug two nics one jumps in irq 11 driven there by bios but, using only one i obtain a more normal situation where the nic is on irq10 and scsi on 11. For a while i thought it could be this the problem but when i kept everything with its own irq nothing changed.

I already did it with Ubuntu live cd taken out from Chip IT magazine :) But it's the same. At this point i think it's really and hardware issue.

It's phased out and ive already the latest... :unsure: This is the motherboard anyway: Aopen AX4B-533 Tube

Hi, ive borrowed a router from a friend of mine, a dlink. I connected it, switched on and i got the same problem as usual. about the router isnt possibile to have doubts coz as been deattached from a win machine and connected through eth to mine. It shows the led for the attached nic but not possibility to bring it up and ping the router. Im considering to simple use a eth modem or to do a check with another motherboard. Cheers, Ric

Ciao! Here i am. I did but same...uff...ok the way to be sure to see the nic seen by the router (in the meaning that the realtek everytime i switch on the pc has its nice led up on the router but ifconfig-ing it shows the ip but not the so wanted word RUNNING), is to disable it in the bios. Then to load linux, then reboot, enable and set it again in linux. Once is up i can reboot billions of times and everything is ok but not switch off. Why do u want to switch it off btw ppl could ask me?!? :huh:

Yep today i will do these bios checkings. For now ive used the Load Default option. About the PnP ive only the voice Resources Controlled by...and i can choose between Manual and ESCD. If Manual inside the IRQs i can have PnP or Reserved showed. Which is i say reserved i dont even know if Linux can use them properly. Will it?

Ahh! That load optimised! :lol: :lol: :lol: Sorry i thought something inside the dram timing, all ok. Mine is home build too.

:lol: I know exactly what you mean. I work in a software house, but at home i want linux. Till now ive seen and tried: Solaris7, UNixware, Sco Unix, diff Windoze, i was in the TeamOS/2 Italy (yep the OS/2 ! :) ), some linux distro since the ugly Slackware 3.2! I want Linux coz i use Mathematica and another program and data and all the rest MUST be stable and reliable. Where is Load Optimised in your Bios? Ok mine isnt new but i dont remember this entry.

Seems so to me too. But why Windoze was instead able to make it work? Ok i know the reasons could be many but i dont like to know that WinXp was able to make it work.

I opted for a static one inserting my router's IP but seems affecting anything. I did a lot of tries during these days, i obtained to be able to reboot all the times i wanted and see the nic connection to the router staying on and i could go on Internet without any problem. All the configuration were simple and stable (static ip, gateway, netmask, metric and so on). Ive found that is the powering off event that creates the problem. At the reboot the router sees the realtek nic, i get the green led all nice and shining on it but it's not in running mode let's it call so. Any idea of what could cause this? Actually when i switch off the pc everything goes down the router too. But in previous tries when i was leaving the router on i got the same result. Any idea on what should cause this?

Guys any suggestion on how to setup this screenshot of the router?

Sorry for the delay but i have the computer at home and when i write here im at work. During the weekend i did some tests, but i can only confirm what ive told before. Usually what i do and i think is correct to do is to open mcc, network section choose to add and configure a nic (first icon at the top), then to choose my nic then manual settings, i give an ip like 192.168.1.4 then netmask 255.255.255.0 then gateway 192.168.1.1, no zeroconf, user controlled yes and also i insert the nameservers the isp gives to my router. I think in this way should work, but it does not. I also insert a hostname (a simply fantasy name). In the router using the web interface (when i can use it), ive choosen to not use the dhcp, then its ip as 192.168.1.1 with 255.255.255.0 as netmask. Actually about the gateway i left automatic gateway, today ill try to insert a static gateway ip. Doubt: PPP IP extension could be useful? Anyway ive tried and doesnt seems so.

Hi to all i hope im coming out from all this... i did but it didnt resolve the problem. Honestly happened that fro two times i could reboot the pc from a total power off condition (meaning no electric connection), and i got the nc brought up and i could surf the net. After one reboot everything went down. Then i tried to apply as dns server 192.168.1.1 and nothing else in the resolv.conf but didnt work out. So i rebooted again and reset the ESCD but same negative behaviour, i tried to after another reboot to edit with mcc inserting dns 0.0.0.0 but was the same. So after another reboot i left blanks in the dns fields and got the surprise to see everything go up (without have to reboot). So THIS is the behaviour of linux in these situations. Any idea why it does so? Honestly i have to check with some other power up and down if everything will go on working. Will leave the router on anyway. In general i'd agree to anyone that would like to place one of these emoticons close to this crazy post...: ...

I think we could say i got it guys! Give a look here: http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=...der=asc&start=0 Seems USR the one we have to check...

From another post: > I have been bordering on the fact that it is the modem/router for a > while, I use dozens of the 8193 network cards here and have never had > problems also the fact that /both/ your different chipset nics show the > same problem points to something external to your machine. im thinking about the same, infact im working on the router now. Two nics, same behviour, 3 distros, and two diff cables (one came along with the router and another normal one i bought), cannot mistake. > One thought on the router side is to check that you are not allocating > an IP on your machine that might be in its DHCP pool ( if you can > change that in your router ) normally you can specify the range of the > dynamically allocated IP`s maybe your router does not like you putting > a static address that is inside the pool????? Would be strange. Using DHCP on router and under linux the connection led goes on but it's unable to fix an Ip to the nic (it shows "determining ip address" but the procedure never ends), instead if i decide for static ip for both i obtain that for a reboot i can find everything goin up, but for one reboot. Anyway, normal behaviour would require that i can bring up/down the nic as much as i want and see the router finding them (led on), and use it, right? This never happened. I wonder if the "Winbleah" Easy configurator procedure wrote something inside the router's firmware. But i think that i jumped over this when under linux ive updated the firmware and did several hard reset on it. > And we all know that you have checked/replaced the cable????? Will (again) check them. > And you are only connecting one nic to the router at the same time???? Yes of course. Worked with only the Realtek without have phisically in the 3com and viceversa with Realtek disabled and the 3com in. > pci=routeirq This i already tried time ago and didnt work. (Which hits another point against the router). This is the link to the router in-rom web based interface. Do you see something particular i should do/not do? http://www.usr.com/support/9105/9105-ug/index.htm

I forgot to say that if i do ifup eth0 seems to be useless (no "RUNNING" indication as answer to ifconfig command) and if i then do ifdown eth0 i get the error message. Thanks, Ric

Hi i also took away the sit0 adding the alias net-pf-10 off line to /etc/modrprobe.conf, forced no apic and no local apic, but at a reboot i got the usual situation im posting here the dump that maybe could help: [root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:5E:53:DF:7E UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:18314 (17.8 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:10 Memory:e3000000-0 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:82 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:6644 (6.4 KiB) TX bytes:6644 (6.4 KiB) [root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifdown eth0 RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable Also when i do the ruote command i get the list i posted here yesterday but it takes time for find the gateway address. This of course when i cannot connect to the router. At this time after have received the RTNETLINK message i set up again the nic with mcc rebooted and the nic went up. Any idea?

Finally im able from that comp to post some text file about some commands. Pls note that the first ifconfig was before the nic started to work in answer to some of my ifup and ifdown. Also ive found the nics works well it's their connection to the router that is lacking. [root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:5E:53:DF:7E inet addr:192.168.1.41 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20a:5eff:fe53:df7e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:10 Memory:e3000000-0 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:12112 (11.8 KiB) TX bytes:12112 (11.8 KiB) [root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifdown eth0 [root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:5E:53:DF:7E inet6 addr: fe80::20a:5eff:fe53:df7e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:192 (192.0 B) Interrupt:10 Memory:e3000000-0 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:12922 (12.6 KiB) TX bytes:12922 (12.6 KiB) [root@SilicaMkV ri]# [root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:5E:53:DF:7E inet addr:192.168.1.41 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20a:5eff:fe53:df7e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:12595868 (12.0 MiB) TX bytes:673125 (657.3 KiB) Interrupt:10 Memory:e3000000-0 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:12922 (12.6 KiB) TX bytes:12922 (12.6 KiB) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 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 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) [root@SilicaMkV ri]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 eth0 [root@SilicaMkV ri]# [root@SilicaMkV ri]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 eth0 [root@SilicaMkV ri]# [root@SilicaMkV ri]# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 193.70.152.15 # nameserver 192.168.1.1 # ppp temp entry [root@SilicaMkV ri]#

Yep it is: USR router/firewall/switch. Being very stupid i didnt check if there is the gateway dev inside the /etc/sysconfig/network file, but having only one nic now i think mcc should have take care about it editing that file. But how to enable it?