linksys card not working


Forum: Networking
Topic: linksys card not working
started by: tzenda

Posted by tzenda on June 03 2006,23:43
hi all i am runing dsl as a live cd on an old sony viao desktop and i cant get the network card to work.  it see's it in the pci list but when i want to configure the lan card it says no card detected.  im pretty new at the linux thing but i did manage to get debian running on another computer.  any ideas would be apreciated
Posted by cbagger01 on June 04 2006,05:50
Specific laptop and network card model number please.
Posted by tzenda on June 11 2006,02:38
it is a linksys LNE100tx   vers. 4.1  in a old 450mhz sony desktop not a laptop, it is the only card in the pc
Posted by cbagger01 on June 11 2006,04:47
Hmm... I have a Linksys LNE and it works fine. Try this. Open a terminal window and type:

sudo su
modprobe tulip
netcardconfig

Choose DHCP = YES if you have a standard network configuration (no static IPs required)

and hopefully it should be working.

Posted by tzenda on June 11 2006,18:00
nope that didnt work,  was i supposed to get some output with the modprobe tulip comand, with the netcardconfig comand i got a failure.
Posted by cbagger01 on June 12 2006,17:22
The tulip command should be successful.
If it fails, the next command (netcardconfig) will also not work.

Try doing this.  Post the output of these commands:

sudo su
lsmod
lspci -v

Posted by tzenda on June 17 2006,03:16
ok here we go

lsmod gets me

soundcore           3428         0  (autoclean)
mousedev           3832         0  (unused)
hid                      22372        0  (unused)
input                    3168        0   [mousedev hid]
af_packet          13544        0  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1    2844         0  (autoclean)
nls_cp437           4348        0  (autoclean)
agpgart               42660      0  (unused)
tulip                     38848      0
crc32                    2816      0  [tulip]
serial                   52100     0  (autoclean)
pcmia_core         39840     0
rtc                        7036      0  (autoclean)
cloop                    8740      2
ieee1394            183076   0
usb-storage       61696      0  (unused)
usb-uhci             21644     0  (unused)
usbcore             57600      1  [hid usb-storage usb-uhci]
ataraid                 6180      0
ide-cd                 28512     0
ide-scsi                8816     1

and for lspci -v the list was to long to write it all down so i just got the part about the nic

0000:00:0b.0   Ethernet controller :Linksys NC100 network everywhere fast ethernet   10/100  (rev 11)
        subsystem: linksys: unknown device 0574
        flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ9
        I/O ports at 1400 [size = 256]
        memory at f4020000  (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1k]
        expansion ROM at <unassigned>[disabled][size=128k]
        capabilities: [c0] Power management version 2

Posted by cbagger01 on June 17 2006,17:05
Hmm...

Looks like DSL already detected your card and installed the tulip driver for you, which explains why the modprobe command failed when we tried to load the driver a second time.

How about getting the output of:

sudo su

ifconfig -a

Posted by tzenda on June 17 2006,19:24
well i get

eth0   Link encap:ethernet HWaddr  00:03:6D:1D:34:EO
         broadcast multicast mtu:1500 metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:24
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
         interrupt:9 Base address: 0x1400

lo       link encap:Local loopback
         inet addr: 127.0.0.1  Mask: 255.0.0.0
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 16436 metric:1
         RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overrunns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:100 (100.0 B)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)

Posted by cbagger01 on June 18 2006,02:50
This means your network interface is present and accounted for.  You need the "eth0" in order to configure your networking.

So it appears that all of your hardware detection is correct, but your network settings or physical connection is wrong.

Are you sure that your network cables are good and they are plugged firmly into the sockets?

Are there any bent terminal wires inside the sockets?  They should all line up nicely just like a telephone jack socket.

Finally, do you know if networking works for other operating systems like Windows on this exact same computer?

If so, you will need to learn your Windows networking configuration so that you can copy it and use it with the DSL linux network settings.

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