Internet connection Hardy Heron

[Jim_in_Germany]

Hi,

This morning I installed Hardy Heron (yay!)
Problem is, in a nutshell that the internet now doesn't work.

My desktop PC has a nvidia mcp55 network card and is connected by lan cable via a switch to a speedport router.

I dual boot the pc with Win XP, and there the internet connection works fine. I can therefore exclude a problem with the cable, switch, ethernet card or router.

The problem definitely lies with Hardy Heron.

In Win XP I would open a shell, type ipconfig, see if I can find the standard gateway and take it from there.

As I am new to Linux, I am not sure where to start.

Any help grately appreciated.

P.S. I am writing this from a laptop connected to the router by a wireless access point. I was just playing around with Hardy on my other PC, and it crashed the router which then needed a hard reset.
Could it be to do with IPv6???

[swoll1980]

click on your network manager in the taskbar do manual configure click on the interface you want to set up hit properties disable roming mode and set it up for dhcp see if that helps

[philinux]

Try connecting the Hardy pc on it's own, directly to the router.

[Jim_in_Germany]

Hi there,

Cheers for the quick reply.

I tried both suggestions and neither work.


Does anyone have any other ideas?

[jtrink]

it may be possible that your nic isn't supported...

[Jim_in_Germany]

Yeah, I thought that, but why would it work perfectly under Gutsy, but not under Hardy?

[subSkipper]

When I first installed Hardy my wired internet connection failed during the installation procedure (through no fault of Hardy or XP) and as a consequence I couldn't access the Internet on my Ubuntu laptop once the installation was done. It took me a while to figure out what had happened since it was only a short break in the service, but I simply re-installed Hardy and made sure that I had a working wired connection throughout the installation procedure. It worked like a charm after that.

[Jim_in_Germany]

Nope, wasn't that.
I tried reinstalling Hardy whilst waiting for replies to my posts.
I was on my laptop the whole time and had internet connectivity.

It's like the Hardy PC cannot find the router.
I unplug the LAN cablefrom the PC with no conbnectivity, plug it into the laptop and have internet straight away.

Would be a shame if this meant I couldn't upgrade.

[milosz.galazka]

Hello,

Try to run

ifconfg -a

You will see something similar to

milosz@milosz-desktop:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1a:4d:9d:43:79
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:255 Base address:0x2000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:44:7a:1d:75
          inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:44ff:fe7a:1d75/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1810300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:989853 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2583011063 (2.4 GB)  TX bytes:74978570 (71.5 MB)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xa000

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:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:498 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:498 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:24900 (24.3 KB)  TX bytes:24900 (24.3 KB)

Then for example you could try

sudo dhclient eth0

I have mpc61 and this card is working:

sudo lspci -v

00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 511
        Memory at f5107000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at bc00 [size=8]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable+
        Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping

milosz@milosz-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep eth

[   23.605454] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.61.
[   24.124573] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 1, addr 00:1a:4d:9d:43:79
[   24.124578] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: highdma pwrctl mgmt timirq gbit lnktim msi desc-v3
[   42.751196] eth0: no link during initialization.

Ethernet cable is not connected to it, but card is working.
At install there was no network but this was probably connected to this bug.

[Jim_in_Germany]

Cheers for that.
I tried running what you suggested, wasn't too sure what I was looking for though.

sudo dhclient eth0 produced:
No DHCP offers received
No working leases in persistent database ...

It really seems like DHCP is the problem (when I try to ping sth. I get the message: host not found).

How can I fix it though??