biikman Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biikman Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 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 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 A bash shell is fine, but you have to be root, or run it like: su -c "lsmod" ...and provide the root password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biikman Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 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...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biikman Posted February 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Try /sbin/lsmod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biikman Posted February 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 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 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biikman Posted February 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 (edited) thank you :) Edited February 28, 2006 by biikman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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