Wired Internet Connection not working

[unca.paka]

Hello all,
I've installed Hardy, and everything went ok, till about 5 day in, my wired internet connection stopped working(Qwest DSL w/2WIRE 2701HG-D router).

I'm dual-booting, and the net connection works fine w/XP.

After searching for a while, I came across some posts(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ction+dropping) that suggested I install WicD, disable IPv6, and use the OpenDNS servers.

After doing all that, the connection worked fine for 12-14hrs. Until today, when it dropped again.

Using WicD, I can disconnect/reconnect and get an ip address, but all internet connectivity continues to not work. Changing the external apps that WicD uses had no effect, and eth0 is not configurable.

My room-mate got back from vacation today, and is connecting through the router wirelessly, not sure if that has anything to do with the problem, just an observation.

Any ideas/suggestions?

[montgoss]

Try the following commands:

sudo dhclient -r eth0
sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

[unca.paka]

And it worked, posting this in Ubuntu right now. Thanks so much.

Any ideas on what could cause a problem like this?

[montgoss]

That's just a band-aid. I'm betting you'll have the exact same problems after rebooting. I don't have a permanent fix. I'm still looking hoping someone can help me with a fix that lasts more than one session. But at least this makes debugging easier since you can get to the forums on the troubled PC.

[unca.paka]

So here it is. Back from a night on the town, to find I have no net connection in hardy(again...)

Restart the machine, and connection is back for about 20min.
Reset the nic, try to get something out of DHCP, and nothing.

Heres some output, in case anyone is interested.
DHCP INFO

moff@EVA-01:~$ sudo dhclient -r eth0
[sudo] password for moff:
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 6130
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:66:1d:15:37
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:19:66:1d:15:37
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.0.1 port 67

moff@EVA-01:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0 down
moff@EVA-01:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
moff@EVA-01:~$ sudo dhclient eth0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 134519072
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:66:1d:15:37
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:19:66:1d:15:37
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

LSHW

moff@EVA-01:~$ sudo lshw -C network *-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:19:66:1d:15:37
size: 1GB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK duplex=full latency=0 link=yes
module=r8169 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1GB/s

LSMOD

moff@EVA-01:~$ sudo lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 12808 1
af_packet 23812 4
ppdev 10372 0
cpufreq_userspace 5284 0
cpufreq_conservative 8712 0
cpufreq_stats 7104 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9740 0
freq_table 5536 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
video 19856 0
output 4736 1 video
container 5632 0
sbs 15112 0
dock 11280 0
sbshc 7680 1 sbs
battery 14212 0
iptable_filter 3840 0
ip_tables 14820 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16132 1 ip_tables
aes_i586 33536 0
dm_crypt 15364 0
dm_mod 62660 1 dm_crypt
ac 6916 0
lp 12324 0
snd_hda_intel 344728 3
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
snd_pcm 78596 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usblp 15872 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
nvidia 7105956 28
i2c_core 24832 1 nvidia
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
psmouse 40336 0
snd_seq 54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
serio_raw 7940 0
snd_timer 24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
irtty_sir 9728 0


snd 56996 17 snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mi xer_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_ seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
sir_dev 17412 1 irtty_sir
button 9232 0
intel_agp 25492 0
iTCO_wdt 13092 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4868 1 iTCO_wdt
parport_pc 36260 1
parport 37832 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
irda 203068 2 irtty_sir,sir_dev
agpgart 34760 2 nvidia,intel_agp
soundcore 8800 1 snd
evdev 13056 3
shpchp 34452 0
pci_hotplug 30880 1 shpchp
pcspkr 4224 0
crc_ccitt 3072 1 irda
ext3 136712 1
jbd 48404 1 ext3
mbcache 9600 1 ext3
sg 36880 0
sr_mod 17956 0
sd_mod 30720 5
cdrom 37408 1 sr_mod
pata_acpi 8320 0
ata_piix 19588 3
floppy 59588 0
ata_generic 8324 0
libata 159344 3 pata_acpi,ata_piix,ata_generic
scsi_mod 151436 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd 37900 0
uhci_hcd 27024 0
r8169 32900 0
usbcore 146028 4 usblp,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal 16796 0
processor 36872 1 thermal
fan 5636 0
fbcon 42912 0
tileblit 3456 1 fbcon
font 9472 1 fbcon
bitblit 6784 1 fbcon
softcursor 3072 1 bitblit
fuse 50708 5

Sorry for the wall o` text, but as far as I can tell, everything is on the up & up. Please, tell me if I'm wrong.

And again, thanks for all the help.

[montgoss]

To me, that looks like a problem with your router. It's not offering you an IP address. Does it work with other computers? Reboot your router and try again.

[unca.paka]

Yeah, the router is serving up IP's to 3 machines, 2 XP, and 1 Vista. Just seems to be dropping the connection when I boot into linux. Tried resetting my router, and again, works for about an hour tops.

After some playing around, it looks like it is my router causing the problem. Connection works fine after rebooting the machine, then drops 5-10min later. Rebooting the router still has no effect.

Checked the router settings, and everything seems alright(DHCP enabled, and working on windows machines). Firewall settings seem fine(nothing getting blocked that shouldn't be).

Strange thing is, everything worked fine for about a week, then one day, poof, connection gone.

UPDATE:
After some checking, I threw the OpenDNS servers into my routers config, and everything seems to be working. I can renew IP's, and have been connected for an hour now. Lets see if it keeps tickin'

[unca.paka]

Alright, after having a working internet connection for about 4hrs, it decided to drop again. I've scoured the web looking for any solution I could find, and pretty much came up practically empty.

A few suggestions I could find were install some new drivers for my on-board nic(no help) turn off wake-on lan settings(not even close) reset my router settings to default(nope) completely disable IPv6(worth a try) and nothing has worked so far.

The laughable part of it is, all the windows machines never got even a hickup in connectivity while this was going on...

So me thinks its time to try a fresh ubuntu install. Gonna save it for the morning, so any suggestions would still be helpful at this point.

[NTolerance]

Alright, after having a working internet connection for about 4hrs, it decided to drop again. I've scoured the web looking for any solution I could find, and pretty much came up practically empty.

A few suggestions I could find were install some new drivers for my on-board nic(no help) turn off wake-on lan settings(not even close) reset my router settings to default(nope) completely disable IPv6(worth a try) and nothing has worked so far.

The laughable part of it is, all the windows machines never got even a hickup in connectivity while this was going on...

So me thinks its time to try a fresh ubuntu install. Gonna save it for the morning, so any suggestions would still be helpful at this point.

Hopefully you haven't started to reformat because I had the same issue as you and found a fix in a new DEB driver posted at the bottom of this Launchpad report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...24/+bug/212497

I have the same PCI-E gigabit ethernet adapter and had the same problem. The adapter is available but won't get an IP. The only issue with the DEB driver is that kernel updates might break it. I've yet to find out if that's going to happen or not.

[unca.paka]

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try when i get home from work. From the sounds of it, it just might work.