Guest Phride Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 (edited) Hello, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my IBM R40 and everything seems to be running smooth except the ethernet controller. I seem to have an IP but yet I am not being able to ping any address, but I can ping my laptop from other machines. I also believe the problem might be from the fact that I have a wireless adapter on my laptop which I will not bother configuring because I don't need it. I say so because I found a wierd line in my ifcfg-eth0 file. Here's how it looks like: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.40 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=" " I have no absolutely no idea why I have an encryption key line in that file. In addition, eth0 will not go up if I set MII_NOT_SUPPORTED to no. Here's my ping reply as well: [root@joelinux joe]# ping 192.168.1.20 PING 192.168.1.20 (192.168.1.20) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.40 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.40 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.40 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.40 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted From 192.168.1.40 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted I also tried looking for way to disable the Wireless Adapter from the control center. Any tips on this point would be most helpful. Best Regards, Joe Edited July 25, 2004 by Phride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 (edited) hi. i am not an expert, but i will try to help nonetheless. :D do you have your firewall enabled? if yes, try to ping without firewall enabled. if it still doesn't work without the firewall, post your ifconfig eth0 results. Edited July 25, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streeter Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 Have a look at my howto at http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/simple_net_setup.html and the sticky post at the top of the networking forum. If you still have no joy, the howto tells you what information to post here. The output of the 'ifconfig' and 'route -n' commands being most important in the first instance. Don't worry about the wireless stuff in ifcfg-eth0, and the MII directive is for hotplugging - best set at yes for now if you are having problems. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 How many active network interfaces do you have? Please post here the output of the `ifconfig' command (you will have to login as root first). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phride Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Thanks streeter. While reading your document I came across the iptables information and I tried it, it did not really solve the problem. Yet I tried doing this: service iptables stop Everything is working fine now. Any other tips I need to consider? Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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