Losing network connection when reboot [solved]

[biikman]

New to Linux, but so far really enjoying the experience. I've installed Mandrake 10.1, and so far have been able to figure out most of the issues I've had. One has me stumped though. I have a cable connection to the net, using a static ip:

Vendor: ‎Realtek

Description: ‎RTL-8139 NIC

 

static ip: 192.168.1.101

netmask 255.255.255.0

gateway: 192.168.1.1

 

each time I reboot I need to remove and create a new network connection in order to get back online. When booting it doesn't show any errors when detecting the NIC card and starting the connection. But once booted up the network icon is "x"ed out. If I right click the network icon and select reconnect nothing happens. Once I create a new network connection all comes back and is ok till the next reboot.

I've tried everything my little knowledge can think of and nothing works. I also lost the network icon in the icon panel, although once i create a new connection I do get back online without it. I would like to have it back also if possible. I'm sure I should give more tech info here but not sdure what else is needed. thanks for any help you may offer this green newbie

[scarecrow]

Probably a bug which has appeared in a few (recent) udev versions...

When you reboot and perform an "lsmod", do you see both "8139too" and "8139cp" loaded, or not?

Edited February 26, 2006 by scarecrow

[biikman]

Please direct me on how to do an "lsmod"

I did try typing that into a terminal window and got:

 

bash: lsmod: command not found

 

as a reply.

thanks for the reply :)

[scarecrow]

A bash shell is fine, but you have to be root, or run it like:

su -c "lsmod"

...and provide the root password.

[biikman]

Tried that also, but get the following:

su -c "lsmod"

Password:(I did type it in)

bash: line 1: lsmod: command not found

[biikman@localhost biikman]$

Edited February 26, 2006 by biikman

[scarecrow]

Freaking impossible... you must be missing some vital base package, or deleted something by hand. Lsmod command SHOULD exist in every linux system.

What happens if you try a

su -c "urpmi module-init-tools" ?

(Although that package should be installed together with your running kernel...).

[biikman]

Same thing. Seems I missed a module during install, as I haven't (knowingly) deleted anything. Since Ihave no clue which module to install to get this, is my only option a reinstall? which is fine, just not sure what to select to make sure Iget this.

thanks

[scarecrow]

I guess that you have configured urpmi sources...

Try again, in a root console

urpmi modutils

and then

lsmod

Linux is not windoze, a reinstall is necessary only when ver major changes occur, or you have a corrupt filesystem.

[Qchem]

Try

 

/sbin/lsmod

[biikman]

Solved. I installed a package that was missed when I originally installed mandrake. This seems to have done the trick. Now if I can just get my printer working on PC#2 under XP I'd be thrilled, but thats another thread. One last question though. I downloaded both Firefox andf thunderbird, and extracted them ok and they run fine from the folder on my desktop. I'm assuming that they should be put in a different directory. Which one would this be?

 

thanks all for the replies and help, I'm gonna stick with this and while I may not completely remove XP, I will be keeping it as boot #2 :) and learning as I go :)

[pmpatrick]

You can put them wherever you want. The easiest thing is to just move those folders to your home (/home/<username>) directory. Moving them elsewhere could give you some permission problems that you may not want to deal with just yet.

[biikman]

thank you :)

Edited February 28, 2006 by biikman