[SOLVED] Candidate for ndiswrapper?

[73ckn797]

VIA-Rhine VT6102 on-board no internet connection:

Mobo = ASUS A7V400-MX, AMD Sempron 2400+, 512 memory

System recognizes on-board LAN but cannot connect to internet. Installed a Broadcom NIC card and can connect. Was wondering if on-board LAN is bad or is there a fix? Searching forums found no solution. Have reset router and broadband modem. New Ubuntu Hardy Heron installation for neighbors box.

Terminal information:

sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 12
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
logical name: eth0
version: 74
serial: 00:11:d8:28:ac:ca
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.4.3 duplex=full latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 module=via_rhine multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s


ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:d8:28:ac:ca
inet6 addr: fe80::211:d8ff:fe28:acca/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:6870 (6.7 KB)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0x2000

eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:d8:28:ac:ca
inet addr:169.254.8.220 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:23 Base address:0x2000

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:1178 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1178 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:60868 (59.4 KB) TX bytes:60868 (59.4 KB)

I have tried several grub menu.lst additions recommeded in other threads (acpi=noirq & irqpoll) which did not help.

Automatic dhcp enabled in Network Manager.

Any ideas?

[73ckn797]

No solution actually found. No replies made to this post. Installed Windows and gave box back to owner.