networking devices

Forum: Networking
Topic: networking devices
started by: gbonett

Posted by gbonett on Oct. 29 2006,23:08

I installed DSL on a USB key and it seems to work fine. the only problem is when i try and connect to the internet i'm not able to. If I run ifconfig the only output i get is:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
and its details.

is there something i have to do to get eth1 up and running?

thanks!

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 29 2006,23:54

How is your computer set up to get internet?

Please describe your connection type,
and if applicable, modem model/type, and network card chipset/model.

Posted by gbonett on Oct. 30 2006,00:01

ok, well, its on a USB key so i was hoping to use it on a number of different machines. One of the machines i'm trying to use it with has both an ethernet card and a internal wireless card. Heres the ifconfig output for that machine when i'm running Ubuntu:

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:F0:A2:38:3A
inet addr:129.186.155.170 Bcast:129.186.155.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::212:f0ff:fea2:383a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:26497 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7958024 (7.5 MiB) TX bytes:141603 (138.2 KiB)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000 Memory:faffd000-faffdfff

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3F:0F:81:C9
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:11

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:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:372 (372.0 b) TX bytes:372 (372.0 b)

when i'm running DSL i only get the last device (lo)
thanks for the speedy reply, i hope this is the info you need

Posted by roberts on Oct. 30 2006,01:04

What happened to eth0 ?
DHCP or Static?

If DHCP then...
As root does pump -i eth1 help ?

Posted by skaos on Oct. 31 2006,12:06

You may also be missing a module (driver in winspeak) for the network card. You can run lspci to find which card you have (assuming it is a pci card) and then lsmod to see if the correct module for the card is loaded. If it's not loaded, use modprobe to load the module, and finally you can try pump if you're using DHCP.

Posted by gbonett on Oct. 31 2006,20:49

ok, so when i try the pump thing i get and error saying that the operation failed.
lspci shows me both of the network devices (ethernet card and wireless) on the computer, but how do i know if the right module is loaded? lsmod works but i don't know how to interpret the output.

thanks for everyones help, sorry about the dumb questions

Posted by gbonett on Nov. 01 2006,03:33

so messing with this a little more i'm pretty sure i don't have the right modules loaded. my two network devices are
a intel pro/wireless 2200BG
and a
Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM5705M 10/100/1000Base T

any idea which modules i should load?