11.04 Networking issues - no ping response but...

[Hermanocleas]

I can connect to the internet and browse. I'm wired and using DHCP on a Windows network.

Updating Ubuntu or downloading programs takes hours for 52MB of updates. Why?

I read some articles that mention Network Manager needs to be enabled at the .conf file. Can I edit this using GUI or command line only?

I'm new to this so if I've duplicated a previous posting I apologize, the search terms I've used have not turned up much.

Thanks!

[josephmills]

I can connect to the internet and browse. I'm wired and using DHCP on a Windows network.

Updating Ubuntu or downloading programs takes hours for 52MB of updates. Why?

I read some articles that mention Network Manager needs to be enabled at the .conf file. Can I edit this using GUI or command line only?

I'm new to this so if I've duplicated a previous posting I apologize, the search terms I've used have not turned up much.

Thanks!
lets get some more info on your system please press ctrl+alt=t when the terminal show up please type in
lspci -nn and paste that here thanks

[Hermanocleas]

Here's what I got:

:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 05)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:3b46] (rev 05)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:3b48] (rev 05)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01)
03:00.0 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller [1180:e822] (rev 03)
03:00.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd FireWire Host Controller [1180:e832] (rev 03)
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1680] (rev 10)
3f:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
3f:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
3f:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
3f:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
3f:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
3f:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)

Thanks for the reply, BTW. :-)

[josephmills]

ok please take out your ip address in this one but could we see a
sudo lshw -C network thanks

[Hermanocleas]

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 5c:ac:4c:96:f2:0c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcm80211 driverversion=2.6.38-8-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:17 memory:f5500000-f5503fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: f0:4d:a2:86:fd:5d
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.116 duplex=full firmware=5761e-v3.73 ip=***.***.***.*** latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:43 memory:f2d10000-f2d1ffff memory:f2d00000-f2d0ffff

[josephmills]

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 5c:ac:4c:96:f2:0c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcm80211 driverversion=2.6.38-8-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:17 memory:f5500000-f5503fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: f0:4d:a2:86:fd:5d
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.116 duplex=full firmware=5761e-v3.73 ip=***.***.***.*** latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:43 memory:f2d10000-f2d1ffff memory:f2d00000-f2d0ffff

ok lets see these
lsmod | grep brcm and
lsmod | grerp tg3
and now

dmesg | grep brcm and
dmesg | grep tg3
thanks (just checking to make sure that everything is right )

[Hermanocleas]

:~$ lsmod | grep brcm
brcm80211 690428 0
mac80211 257001 1 brcm80211
cfg80211 156212 2 brcm80211,mac80211
:~$ lsmod | grep tg3
tg3 131476 0
:~$ dmesg | grep brcm
[ 13.746858] brcm80211: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 13.858475] brcm80211 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 13.858487] brcm80211 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
:~$ dmesg | grep tg3
[ 2.259080] tg3.c:v3.116 (December 3, 2010)
[ 2.259096] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 2.259106] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 2.324003] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95761e) rev 5761100] (PCI Express) MAC address f0:4d:a2:86:fd:5d
[ 2.324006] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5761 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
[ 2.324009] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 2.324011] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
[ 14.639183] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 16.360299] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 16.360302] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX

[josephmills]

ok now a
rfkill list all thanks

[slopoke36]

I am having the same issue with my wireless. I have a Windows/Ubuntu partition. Windows can connect to the internet but the Buntu cannot.

[Hermanocleas]

:~$ rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

[josephmills]

getting close lets see a
lsmod | grep dell

[Hermanocleas]

:~$ lsmod | grep dell
dell_wmi 12601 0
dell_laptop 13515 0
sparse_keymap 13666 1 dell_wmi
dcdbas 14054 1 dell_laptop

[josephmills]

I am having the same issue with my wireless. I have a Windows/Ubuntu partition. Windows can connect to the internet but the Buntu cannot.start a new thread and I am sure that someone will help you out

[josephmills]

:~$ lsmod | grep dell
dell_wmi 12601 0
dell_laptop 13515 0
sparse_keymap 13666 1 dell_wmi
dcdbas 14054 1 dell_laptop

lets try this
sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
then a
rfkill list thanks

[Hermanocleas]

:-$ sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop

That command locked up my computer.

(I rebooted and..)

:~$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Not sure since it locked up if whatever it was suppose to do was successful.

[Hermanocleas]

I sis have to put in a password to run the sudo command but after that it brought me back to the command prompt, the cursor disapears and my computer locks up.

[josephmills]

:-$ sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop

That command locked up my computer.

(I rebooted and..)

:~$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Not sure since it locked up if whatever it was suppose to do was successful.
ok try this
rfkill unblock all
then a
rfkill list thanks

[Hermanocleas]

:~$ rfkill unblock all
:~$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

[josephmills]

:~$ rfkill unblock all
:~$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

this is the trouble maker right here we have to remove this
try

sudo -s
then

rmmod -f dell-laptop then give it 3 min

exit
then
rfkill list
and paste all to here besides name

[Hermanocleas]

Gave it 5min to fester. Still locks up. No mouse, no cursor in terminal window, no keyboard.

After rebooting, 'rfkill list' showed no change in the settings.

[josephmills]

poopy ka-ka try
sudo rmmod -f dell_laptop

[Hermanocleas]

I think that block was caused by my wireless adapter being physically switched off on the laptop itself. You know? I reran the rfkill list and it now shows:

:~$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

I don't use wireless right now though so I normally would have it switched off.

[josephmills]

with your wireless connected try a
ping 74.125.226.84 its google let run for a min press ctrl+c and then paste here

[Hermanocleas]

Not in a wireless hotspot right now. tried using wired connection:

:~$ ping 74.125.226.84
PING 74.125.226.84 (74.125.226.84) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=1 ttl=56 time=43.6 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=2 ttl=56 time=45.7 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=3 ttl=56 time=73.6 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=4 ttl=56 time=42.7 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=5 ttl=56 time=42.6 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=6 ttl=56 time=43.3 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=7 ttl=56 time=43.3 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=8 ttl=56 time=43.3 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=9 ttl=56 time=43.3 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=10 ttl=56 time=62.6 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=11 ttl=56 time=43.8 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=12 ttl=56 time=43.5 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=13 ttl=56 time=42.9 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=14 ttl=56 time=43.2 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=15 ttl=56 time=47.8 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=16 ttl=56 time=42.8 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=17 ttl=56 time=45.8 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=18 ttl=56 time=43.3 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.226.84: icmp_req=19 ttl=56 time=44.3 ms
^C
--- 74.125.226.84 ping statistics ---
19 packets transmitted, 19 received, 0% packet loss, time 18029ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 42.613/46.439/73.644/7.764 ms


The ping function still doesn't work when I do it under System Settings|Network Tools|Ping. Does this functionality need to be enabled somewhere?

Also, do updates generally take a long time to download, is it perhaps a characteristic of Ubuntu?

[josephmills]

--- 74.125.226.84 ping statistics ---
19 packets transmitted, 19 received, 0% packet loss, time 18029ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 42.613/46.439/73.644/7.764 ms

looks good to me



The ping function still doesn't work when I do it under System Settings|Network Tools|Ping. Does this functionality need to be enabled somewhere?
I don't know I have only used cli not gui sorry


Also, do updates generally take a long time to download, is it perhaps a characteristic of Ubuntu?
NO try
sudo apt-get update how long does this take?

[Hermanocleas]

It only takes a couple seconds. Did that just update anything or list available updates?

I currenlty get errors whenever I try to update using the update manager but I guess that's off topic. It's annoying none-the-less.

[josephmills]

that just updated your repos and packages to up grade do
sudo apt-get upgrade

[Hermanocleas]

Sounds good. Thanks for the tips!

Now I just need to tackle the weird keyboard phenomena. I type and all of a sudden the cursor is up a couple lines I changed my keyboard layout to Dell Latitude series Laptop but that didn't seem to change anything. I haven't researched that much yet though.

[Hermanocleas]

Upgrade seems to be going much slower than update did. I ran that command and it's only 5% complete 14.0/36.0 MB. Jeesh.

[josephmills]

Upgrade seems to be going much slower than update did. I ran that command and it's only 5% complete 14.0/36.0 MB. Jeesh.

post the upgrade results

[Hermanocleas]

Will do - make take a while, right now: 6% 14.9/36.0 MB.

ZZZZZzzZZzzzzzZzzz....

[josephmills]

also try going to system-->admin-->system monitor then click on the resources tab how fast are you going?

[Hermanocleas]

Looks pretty pathetic to me:

Receiving: 3.3 KiB/s
Total Received: 27.0 MiB

Sending: 139 bytes/s
Total Sent: 4.0 MiB

[josephmills]

ok lets take a look at some tool again take out ip and hw address
nm-toolI only need to see on part
Type: Wired
Driver: tg3
State: unavailable
Default: no
HW Address: ****************

Capabilities:
Carrier Detect: yes
Speed: 100 Mb/s

Wired Properties
Carrier: off
thanks again I have to go to work I have 3 degrees but work landscaping go figure right. At least its a nice day here in new york I will be back around 7 or eight pm est

[Hermanocleas]

Type: Wired
Driver: tg3
State: connected
Default: yes
HW Address:

Capabilities:
Carrier Detect: yes
Speed: 100 Mb/s

Wired Properties
Carrier: on


It looks like it occasionally speeds up - just watching the Terminal Window as it runs it'll display the speed and it seems to download a little faster for a few seconds, then back to grass growth speed.

[Hermanocleas]

As I browse the internet my connection is perfectly fine that's why I wondered if it was just a characteristic of these upgrades.

[josephmills]

Type: Wired
Driver: tg3
State: connected
Default: yes
HW Address:

Capabilities:
Carrier Detect: yes
Speed: 100 Mb/s

Wired Properties
Carrier: on


It looks like it occasionally speeds up - just watching the Terminal Window as it runs it'll display the speed and it seems to download a little faster for a few seconds, then back to grass growth speed.
start looking around for more driver for your eth0 that might be it dont install just look

[Hermanocleas]

Searched for Broadcom 57xx Gigabit Controller Drivers Ubuntu and found...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/broadcom-netxtreme-57xx-gigabit-controller-through-integrated-ethernet-adaptor-ubuntu-403644/

http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtreme_desktop.php

As for the other results not sure which ones are reputable or not. Broadcom lists the tg3 driver as being for Linux. Maybe it's a more recent version than what I currently have?

[josephmills]

try http://www.googlubuntu.com/results/?cx=006238239194895611142%3Au-ocqbntw_o&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=%5B14e4%3A1680%5D+driver++&as_qdr=all&sa=Google+Search&lang=en
and http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=%5B14e4%3A1680%5D+driver
have a look around

EDIT
if you would like to see you version of your driver do


modinfo -F version tg3

[Hermanocleas]

Looks like I have the latest version of tg3... Looks like some people have recommended alternative drivers but that's on earlier versions. Perhaps worth a shot anyway?

[Hermanocleas]

It's strange cause it seems to only be the upgrade that is slow. Updates went quickly and so does browsing.

[josephmills]

unplug the cable then plug it back in. Then


dmesg

this will tell you what the linux kernel is seeing take out any ip address and also hw address I don't think that there will be any but this is what we are looking for


[ 1100.934163] tg3 0000:02:00.0: eth0: Link is down
[ 1102.658628] tg3 0000:02:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1102.658634] tg3 0000:02:00.0: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
if you see this (you should) post

[Hermanocleas]

I'd like to get through this upgrade first, currently:

56% [184 libreoffice-writer 3,744 kB/6,132 kB 61%]

It sped up for a period of about a minute then slows back down. Seems like each "Get:" item downloads at a different speed sometimes.

[Hermanocleas]

I think it was the repository server I was using.

I went into Synaptic Package Manager and ran a test to find the best repository server; after choosing the server it came up with, I reran the upgrade and it went along very rapidly. It's now installing the downloaded upgrades.

[Hermanocleas]

Apparently when you do what I did it also updates the apt-get and aptitude configuration as well but don't quote me on it.

Thanks for your help!

[josephmills]

nice glad to here:) Got off work early there was a tornado warning if solved please mark thanks and happy ubuntuing ):P