Ethernet no longer working for no reason

orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

So recently I just got wireless working. But now when I try to connect by ethernet wire, it doesn't get any DHCP offers or whatever and it doesn't connect to anything. I do ifconfig ath0 down and ifconfig eth0 up and dhclient eth0 but it doesn't find anything. Maybe I have to do something in the kernel? It was working fine last week when wireless was not working at all.

didymos · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

Post /etc/conf.d/net. Wait, are you using that, or doing this all manually?
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orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

I'm using the default net.lo and symlinking that to net.ath0 and net.eth0. It was working fine before the wireless got working

orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

I see wifi0 starting so I think wireless is overriding the ethernet cord line and it keeps redirecting to wireless now. How do I make it stop and see that I have the cord plugged in?

On my Gentoo LiveCD, the LiveCD doesn't even connect to the internet anymore. Maybe it's my internet? I just got new cable internet and I never used it before.

orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

Well on Ubuntu I plugged it in and it worked perfectly. How can I get this working on Gentoo?

So now I'm pretty sure it has something to do with my wireless ath0 overriding eth0 and making it think eth0 is wireless. How do I make my computer know that there is a ethernet cord attached?

orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

dmesg | grep "eth"

it gives me some lines that look good, like it sees my network card RealTek and it says eth0 link is up and it becomes read, but then it gives me this that don't look so good:

eth0: no IPv6 routers present

That's the only bad line it looks like.

orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

I booted up the Gentoo LiveCD and now the LiveCD won't connect anymore.

didymos · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:00 am Post subject:

OK, try this in /etc/conf.d/net:

orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

Okay thanks are you sure there's no spaces between the parenthesis and quote in the "dhcp" ?

Anyway I tried both but it's not working anyway.

didymos · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:14 am Post subject:

Umm, yeah, I forgot the spaces. I was cut-and-pasting.
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orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

When I do "dhclient eth0" it says wifi0

didymos · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:10 am Post subject:

Have you edited dhclient.conf?
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