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Posted: July 04 2005,06:50 QUOTE
Hello,

Finally installed DSL to my laptop's (Toshiba Satellite 220CCDS)  HD, and I'm not going back to Micro$oft anytime soon. But I do have one problem, though; my LAN card  doesn't seem to want to connect.

I see the 100M indicator on the card flashing, and my cable modem works great on my other computer. I opened Xterminal and verified my setup.

This is what I get with lspci

Code Sample
0000:00:00.0 Host Bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems 601
0000:00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America I.S. ToPIC95
0000:00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America I.S. ToPIC95
0000:00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corp. USB
0000:15:00.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link DFE-690TXD CardBus PC Card


Okay, it sees my card (great!). Now here's what I get with ifconfig:

Code Sample
eth()  Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:3E:26:F6
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX Packets:16659 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:1003836 (980.3 KiB) TX Bytes:5544 (5.4 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base Address:0x9000

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX Packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:896 (896.0 KiB) TX Bytes:896 (896.0 KiB)


I even recycled my modem (unplugging, then plugging back in). I still can't figure out why I can't connect, plus I'm out of ideas (even after Googling for the answer for 2 days). Anybody got any ideas?
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Posted: July 05 2005,06:22 QUOTE
Okay, I think this is a DNS issue. I suddenly got the idea to run the laptop through an old router I had lying around and used netconfig to send a dhcp broadcast to that same router. After a successful attempt I was finally able to to connect; this leads me to believe thath the system was having problems resolving DNS queries - using a router took that responsibility from the computer.

My only question now is, what should I do to enable the computer itself to resolve DNS without the router?
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