[SOLVED] How do you change out a NIC

[SteveNorman]

I am trying to switch from an old wired lan card to a new intel pro/1000 gt (865080). I thought I could just take the old out, put the new in/ reboot and get online, but this is not the case. It launched intel boot agent first then goes to grub. I dont know if this matters or not.

I cant seem to find any info on how to fix this and am wondering If I am the only person to have this problem

any help would be greatly appreciated.

BTW I am using my old lan card again with no problems,,both are PCI, and it doesnt load in XP either (I dual boot). With XP I know I have to load a driver via DOS,,but from what I have read everyone seems to be able to get this card to work out of the box in ubuntu.

[Xerp]

Yes, normally you just take out the old card and put the new one in! So what actually happens? Does it get past grub and boot into Ubuntu, or hang?

[kattman]

Might be worth to Clear the computer Bios, and see if will detect the new card

[SteveNorman]

It boots into ubunutu after it does this for awhile (20sec?):
DHCP............/ where / is turning


Not sure how you clear bios,,I have american mega trends


ifconfig with the intel card in gives:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:21:28:a6:82  
          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:20 Base address:0xdead 

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:1c:e0:f7  
          inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fe1c:e0f7/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3582 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:233864 (228.3 KB)  TX bytes:10071 (9.8 KB)
          Base address:0xbc00 Memory:f9fc0000-f9fe0000 

eth2:avahi Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:1c:e0:f7  
          inet addr:169.254.9.5  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Base address:0xbc00 Memory:f9fc0000-f9fe0000 

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:1076 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1076 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:55035 (53.7 KB)  TX bytes:55035 (53.7 KB)

lscpi with the card in gives:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 02)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode (rev 03)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] (rev a2)

[neurostu]

If you can get ubuntu to boot, open a terminal and type:

lspci

then paste the results below!

[SteveNorman]

read your mind Neurostu,,lol,it in the above post.

[SteveNorman]

It sees the card,,it just doesnt let me online. I tried manually configuring to no avail. Now it looks up on firebug then eventually lets me in.

[Xerp]

Cool, so Ubuntu sees your two gigabit NICs - they just need assigning some info. Do you use static IPs or are they assigned by a DHCP server?

[SteveNorman]

It says "enabled roaming mode" and is checked.

Here is ifconfig for my old card (one in now that works:

~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:b5:83:18:42  
          inet addr:67.160.44.146  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:b5ff:fe83:1842/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:750 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:52869 (51.6 KB)  TX bytes:12434 (12.1 KB)
          Interrupt:20 Base address:0xc400 

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:1082 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1082 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:45466 (44.4 KB)  TX bytes:45466 (44.4 KB)

[Xerp]

Nice, so we have half the info there. Interesting IP address though - thats a "real" one. I'd expect to see something 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x What is plugged into your NIC?

manual config like this:

sudo ifconfig eth2 67.160.44.146 netmask 255.255.252.0

would set the NIC info, you'd then need the output from

netstat -rn

to see the old default route (with the old eth0 working), then

sudo route add default gateway ip.address.from.netstat

But all that is a little beside the point as your DHCP should be working ... The old eth0 is set to roaming too, yes?