Issues with network card [FIXED]

Falcus · Last edited by Falcus on Fri Mar 05, 2004 5:57 am; edited 1 time in total

Bear with my n00biness...

Heres the story: I was attempting to get my Xfree server running a few weeks ago and could succesfully emerge the xfree86 package. However, now when I attempt to emerge ANYTHING (I initially was trying fluxbox), I get an error relating to "host not found". Tried emerge with tons of other stuff and no luck. I'm pretty sure it's a network card problem; I can't even ping.
At this point I'm near ready to reinstall, I've encountered so many recurring problems that it just feels like it's been a messy install, but if I can just get the stupid card to get working, I'll settle for that, install Fluxbox and shut my mouth.

When I try out /sbin/ifconfig, I get that annoying lo info... no eth0. I'm using a SMC network card (model SMC1211), and I made sure that my kernel supports it (using gentoo-sources). What strikes me most oddly is that it was woking about a month ago. Hmm. (also checked that the cable is good)

Any ideas?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject:

Falcus,

Since eth0 is missing from /sbin/ifconfig the kerenl module is not getting loaded or is not being initalised.

Can you see the kernel module with /sbin/lsmod ?
Can you modprobe it?
Does eth0 appear in /sbin/ifconfig now?
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Falcus · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:08 am Post subject:

Let me preface by thanking you for helping an uneducated newbie...

When I run a /sbin/lsmod, nothing shows up - just

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:20 am Post subject:

A quick google tells me your SMC Eznet card uses a realtek chipset and the 8139too module.

druggo · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:37 am Post subject:

#lspci
and find the netcard module name,try:
#insmod 8139too (if it's a 8139too)
or post your /etc/modules.conf

Falcus · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:08 am Post subject:

Alright... let's see...

# lspci gives a command not found... hmm.

# insmod 8139too just gives a lot of "unresolved symbol" readouts.

And... I don't know how to get all that text from the modules.conf file to a post here on my windows machine. :roll:

How?

And cryillic, thanks for the module... but I still don't know exactly how to use the modprobe. When I type:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject:

Falcus,

How did you configure and build your kernel?

If you used genkernel and it worked, should have a modules tree in /lib/modules/<kernel_version>

If you rolled your own, did you do the

Falcus · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject:

Neddy

I've had module problems in the past and after recompiling the kernel they've vanished, so I assume I've been doing it right... hopefully. :lol:

The steps I usually take are to enter my LiveCD, then

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

Falcus,

Thats OK provided you don't get any errors along the way AND that /usr/src/linux points the the kernel you want to build.

You must do the install steps as root.
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Falcus · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject:

Alrighty...

I just ran through the menuconfig again, and found that the Realtek module was not compiled with the kernel... so I fixed that...
But, after everything was good and done and I booted up regularly again, if I type

Peracles · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · ls --color /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r9

Falcus,

/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r9 is the top of the modules directorty tree.
When you modprobe something and nothing happens, that means modprobe worked.

Use

Falcus · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject:

And the plot thickens...

Peracles: Thanks for the info, and yes, I configured the module into the kernel. After running dmesg, I can find these two lines buried a little way in:

Peracles · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject:

Falcus,

You get that error with modprobe because you built 8139too into the kernel (bzImage) so its not a loadable module.

You need to edit /etc/conf.d/net to your taste.
Thats with static IP addresses if thats what you do, or to use DHCP.
Now restart networking as I've already posted.

Networking should 'just work'(tm)
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Falcus · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:17 am Post subject:

Okay... I think things are gonna clear up now, just a few more questions.
Also, I rebooted to check, and it loads on startup.

When I run ifconfig, eth0 shows up all nice 'n pretty, but lo is still there, is that a problem, or do I not even need to worry about it?

Also, I've tried many times so far to rsync (doesn't work), so if ya say I need some servers, where could I find a list? I've searched, haven't found much. When I emerge sync, it tries the same server over and over. Also where do I need to add them in my resolv.conf file, all it reads is

Peracles · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:35 am Post subject:

Falcus · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:48 am Post subject:

Okie dokie:

I'm able to ping myself and the gateway, but not yahoo. I get an error like

Peracles · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject:

Falcus,

If you posted the real content of /etc/resolv.conf then your nameserver IP addresses are wrong.

Doing a whois and a ping on those IP numbers shows that the nameservers are at 4.2.49.2, 4.2.49.3 and 4.2.49.4.

If your IP address begins with 4. (and only if) put those numbers in your /etc/resolv.conf as three more nameservers.
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gamerwiz · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 8

i recently set up networking for a couple peeps in a house who want to share their internet connection, and they couldn't get it running whatsoever - i found out that two things were wrong / missing:
1. the subnet mask was entered incorrectly
2. the addresses for resolf.conf weren't put in correctly

so you really need to check these things, same with the gateway address - about the dns server addresses, you should have 2 of them, maybe even 3 - simply enter in resolv.conf:

Falcus · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:54 am Post subject:

An update...

I'm behind a netgear router so I checked and everything like the subnet mask and all that jazz are entered correctly into /etc/conf.d/net. However, resolv.conf is still giving me trouble.

When I attempt to ping with the 4.2.2.65 type addresses, I get unknown host errors. I checked this machine (Win XP) and it's using my router as a DNS server apparently - 192.168.0.1. After entering that into resolv.conf, I get a different error - Network is unreachable. My service provider (Verizon) says (obviously for windows machines) to acquire DNS servers automatically, so I don't really know what to do there... I'd assume since the Netgear router is set to get DNS servers from the provider that it's address would accomplish the same thing if entered into resolv.conf. And Neddy, entering in those different adresses beginning with 4 gives the unknown host error.

My /etc/init.d/net file has dhcp enabled, so that seems to be alright...

Hmmmm... more help is requested. Thanks for any more help. =)
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dleifelohcs · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 160 Location: UNH

quick scan and I didn't see this, you ARE starting eth0 on boot, right?

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
ping google.com

rc-update add net.eth0 default

Falcus · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:01 am Post subject:

Yup, during bootup lo and eth0 are started, and running /etc/init.d/eth0 start and rc-update add net.eth0 default just says that it's already been done in both instances.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject:

Falcus,

Please post the output of