draknewbie Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 I have a Motorola SB5100 that connects me to Road Runner's internet service. I plug the modem into my laptop computer's ethernet port (the card is a Realtek 8139). Under windows, this used to work automatically. Under Mandrake 10.1, this won't work at all. I cannot bring up the network interface. In drakconnect, I select cable modem with automatic IP (my IP address is assigned by DHCP). ifup eth0 command always fails. I have spent hours trying different things, would appreciate some ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 Try using the "Lan" option in the control centre instead of cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 seconded. AFAIK, this type of modem (I've got one myself) isn't PPPoE or anything like that, it just presents a perfectly normal LAN connection to the PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draknewbie Posted April 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 Whether LAN or cable modem, ifup eth0 still fails to determine an IP address. I have also tried dhcpcd eth0, but that does not do anything. I do not know much about host names. In case this is relevant, I leave all such fields blank when running the wizard. Â Determining IP information for eth0... failed, if only I had a nickel for every time I have seen that in the past 72 hours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 What does: ifconfig Print out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draknewbie Posted April 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 A simple if config returns: Â 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:16434 Metric:1 RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:7190 (7.0 Kb) TX bytes:7190 (7.0 Kb) Â ifconfig -a returns this: Â eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:02:2E:DD:9C BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets: 2961 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:166138 (162.2 Kb) TX bytes: 6964 (6.8 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb000 Â 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:16434 Metric:1 RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:7190 (7.0 Kb) TX bytes:7190 (7.0 Kb) Â 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 It's that second line of eth0 that throws me. Should list your local ip and subnet, so the network is not configured right. Â Here's what I would do. Open up MCC, go to network and internet, then the "remove a connection" button, and remove all netowrk connections that are listed. Then, got to create a new notwork conenction, and set up a lan. NOT a cable internet connection. Those settings are for internal cable modems. Â You know, adamw, you might try buzzing in people's ears are mandriva. Every single release there's tonnes of people who can't set up their internet connections because the think they need a PPPoE or some other such non-sense, because the MCC has a different link for DSL/Cable, and they don't understand how these things work. You could fix this by creating a litle pop-up when the DSL/Cable setup dialog is opened that reminds folks that external Cable and DSL modems virtualy all work as a standard network conection, and don't need the broadband dialog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 yeah, that might be a good idea, to clarify it in some way. Though a simple clarification that isn't full of scary technical language might be tricky. I'll suggest it to oblin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draknewbie Posted April 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 OK, deleted all connections, and set up a new LAN from drakconnect. Went  to Konsole and typed some commands:  # ifup eth0 Determining IP information for eth0... failed # dhcpcd eth0 # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:02:2E:DD:9C BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets: 4783 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:299082 (292 Kb) TX bytes: 7150 (6.9 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb000  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:16434 Metric:1 RX packets:478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:36162 (35.3 Kb) TX bytes:36162 (35.3 Kb)  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)   I am not new to computers, but networking them is still a foreign subject to me, so I admit that I am not sure of what any of this means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 at this point, the output of 'lsmod' run as root is what we need next. There's something up with the network driver, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draknewbie Posted April 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 can do...  [root@localhost Desktop]# lsmod Module          Size  Used by md5           3584  1 ipv6          230916  8 rfcomm         32348  0 l2cap          19876  5 rfcomm bluetooth        39076  4 rfcomm,l2cap snd-seq-oss       31232  0 snd-seq-midi-event    6080  1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq         47440  4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss       49480  0 snd-mixer-oss      17376  1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx       22372  1 snd-ac97-codec     69392  1 snd-via82xx snd-pcm         81800  2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer        20356  2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-page-alloc      7400  2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm gameport         3328  1 snd-via82xx snd-mpu401-uart     5856  1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi       19300  1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device      6344  3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd           45988  13 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-via82xx,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device soundcore        7008  1 snd af_packet        16072  0 hsfusbcd2        56600  0 hsfmc97sis       47536  0 hsfmc97ati       45712  0 hsfmc97ali       52052  0 hsfmc97via       49080  0 hsfmc97ich       50832  0 hsfpcibasic2      56336  0 hsfserial        18916  7 hsfusbcd2,hsfmc97sis,hsfmc97ati,hsfmc97ali,hsfmc97via,hsfmc97ich,hsfpcibasic2 hsfengine       1299348  1 hsfserial hsfosspec        81700  12 hsfusbcd2,hsfmc97sis,hsfmc97ati,hsfmc97ali,hsfmc97via,hsfmc97ich,hsfpcibasic2,hs fserial,hsfengine hsfsoar         57248  7 hsfusbcd2,hsfmc97sis,hsfmc97ati,hsfmc97ali,hsfmc97via,hsfmc97ich,hsfpcibasic2 floppy         55088  0 ds           17572  2 yenta_socket      18624  0 pcmcia_core       59972  2 ds,yenta_socket 8139too         20928  0 mii           4224  1 8139too ide-cd         37280  0 cdrom          37724  1 ide-cd loop          12520  0 nls_iso8859-1      3680  1 ntfs          147964  1 supermount       34804  1 via-agp         7360  1 agpgart         27752  1 via-agp nvram          6856  0 evdev          7648  0 uhci-hcd        28752  0 usbcore        103172  5 hsfusbcd2,hsfosspec,uhci-hcd ext3          120680  2 jbd           49080  1 ext3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 do this:  modprobe -r 8139too  then this:  modprobe 8139too  then wait ten seconds and do this:  dmesg  all as root. Paste the last twenty lines or so of dmesg (or more, if it all looks related to network). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draknewbie Posted April 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 Here is the relevant text from dmesg: Â 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0b.0 IRQ routing conflict for 0000:00:07.5, have irq 5, want irq 11 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcfa15000, 00:08:02:2e:dd:9c, IRQ 11 eth0: Â Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 ... eth0: no IPv6 routers present Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 IRQ conflicts - bad news. First thing to try is disabling APIC: you can do this from the boot configuration tool in the Mandriva Control Center, or you can do it manually by editing the file /etc/lilo.conf , adding the text 'noapic' to the first line you see that starts with 'append=' (just put it among all the other options on that line), then running 'lilo' as root and rebooting. If you have trouble getting this done, let us know, also of course let us know if it doesn't fix the problem. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draknewbie Posted April 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 I have seen this suggestion before, and I think it actually worked for one user, but it did not work for me. I edited lilo.conf from Konsole, and I assume I did it correctly since I checked the control center window, and the "Force no APIC" box was checked even though I did not check it myself. Still, "Determining IP information... failed" If only I had a nickel for every time I've seen that over the past week... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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