Mdk10 Official Network eth0 is borked

[Guest sirtaldon]

I am posting this from my 9.2 desktop machine. I have an IBM R50 laptop which I have been dual-booting XP and Mdk9.2 with for a couple of months now. The nic is the gigabit ethernet and worked fine under 9.2 right out of the box. When I did an upgrade to 10.0 official, everything else seems to work fine or even better except that I can't get the nic to work properly.

 

Things I have tried.

1. rebooting. sometimes, most of the time in fact, when booting the screen shows "OK" for everything until the eth0, then "Bringing up interface Eth0: [FAILED]" I checked MCC and it is set to start at boot. Even if I start it manually with "ifconfig eth0 up" I can't get to the net.

2. In MCC I removed the network connection and created a new one for eth0. DHCP is working as the laptop gets an IP and NetMask and the Gateway is correct. Also in MCC, the hardware shows up as ehternet and it has the correct e1000 module - which is correct as far as I know.

3. Typing "ifconfig" brings up the correct information(as compared to my working 9.2 machine). It shows both eth0 and lo. If I use "netstat -ie" it gives the following error... "error fetching interface information: Device not found" As I said, "ifconfig" shows the IP, NetMask, and MAC address and if I try "netstat -r" I get correct route info (as compared to my working pc). I can not fathom why ifconfig and MCC sees the hardware but netstat does not.

4. I tried not using Shorewall, I had it configured under 9.2, but that didn't change anything.

 

If I open the Opera browser and try to go to any site it returns the error "Network socket blocking", for which I have no clue as to its' meaning.

 

Can anyone give me some help sorting this out?

Thanks,

sirtaldon