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SYNeR
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 Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:45 am Post subject: Inspiron 8100 & Gentoo LiveCD - NIC Issue |
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Hey all..
I recently decided to install Gentoo on my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop..
So I booted the 2004.1 LiveCD. At first it tried loading the mii.o module for my NIC..
I did: cat /proc/pci & found:
"Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556 Hurricane CardBus (rev 16)".
After a bit of googling, I saw that for this NIC, you should use the 3c59x.o driver.. which I loaded with modprobe (it loads w/o erroring or anything).
Although, now, when I try net-setup eth0, and setup a static IP, ifconfig shows the IP, bcast, netmask, etc.. that I set.. but I don't have a connection.
Any ideas?
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t3rm1nal
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:55 am Post subject: |
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whats the output of your ifconfig?
have no connection to what exactly? behind a firewall, switch, router?
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SYNeR
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:11 am Post subject: |
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It's just a typical LAN connection... just trying to get onto the LAN 192.168.0.x , where 192.168.0.1 is my internet gateway.
ifconfig shows:
eth0
Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 35-4F-C0-00-21-76-94-.....etc.
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)
Although I can't ping other boxes on my network ;\
any ideas?
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t3rm1nal
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:21 am Post subject: |
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well, looks like its getting an ip...
are you trying to ping other hosts on the network by hostname or ip?
can you ping your router 192.168.0.1?
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cyberkryst
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:22 am Post subject: Try this ? |
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I know I saw this in these forums, but I just can't seem to find it again....
| Code: | rmmod 1394
modprobe 3c59x.o
dhcpcd eth0 |
Worked great for my Inspiron 5100.... I use a different nic though.
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SYNeR
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:57 am Post subject: |
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I'm pinging by IP.. And no, I can't ping the gateway box (192.168.0.1)
I tried rmmod 1394 , modprobe 3c59x.o, dhcpd eth0
firstly, 1394 module isn't loaded & command dhcpd isn't found  |
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SYNeR
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:43 am Post subject: |
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tried rmmod eth1394 & had 3c59x.o loaded..
Now it's working 
Anyone care to give a brief explanation as to what eth1394 is (1394 == firewire?..) & why rmmod'ing it fixed my NIC?
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nixnut
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| SYNeR wrote: | tried rmmod eth1394 & had 3c59x.o loaded..
Now it's working
Anyone care to give a brief explanation as to what eth1394 is (1394 == firewire?..) & why rmmod'ing it fixed my NIC?
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For some daft reason the firewire ends up as eth0. After removing the firewire module you can use your nic as eth0. Another option would have been to configure your nic as eth1
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