Wired Networking with Zenwalk 6.4 - Solved

johnwh46 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:47 pm **Posts:** 46

I Installed Zenwalk 6.4 on an old desktop with an on-motherboard Ethernet RJ45 network connection - It did not connect. I have reinstalled 5.2 Gnome and it worked straight away (some other more recent versions similarly would not connect to the Internet). Computer is a former Education Dept cast off ACER that did run XP pro so must have been a reasonable quality. Any Suggestions? (It may be just filling in the correct addresses in the black magic area or other but it is somewhat discouraging).

chik3n · **Joined:** Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:45 pm **Posts:** 398

Hi,

did you try to use wicd ?

cheers, chik3n

johnwh46 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:47 pm **Posts:** 46

Well my desktop is sitting next to my router (Netcomm N3G002W) and a wired RJ45 connection is the preferred connection. I have a Netgear WG111 USB wireless adapter, however trying it out it could not find the requested drivers (reinstalling Zenwalk with the USB adapter in place). (I had not been able to work out how to get it working under Zenwalk with previous versions).

m4xr8d · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:00 pm

While your plug is a RJ45, the actual component on your computer it plugs into is far more relevant. Seeing you seem to be connecting on other distros and not Zenwalk, I would guess a kernel module is not loaded or another one needs to be blacklisted. That's the best I can do with out seeing the output of lspci and lsmod

So please open a terminal and login as root and issue those commands and then post the output.

chik3n · **Joined:** Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:45 pm **Posts:** 398

Hi,

so you want to hook (use a real physical wire!) up your pc to your router. Did you start the program wicd (Menu -> Network Manager) ?

to check if your wire network device is working try "grepping the dmesg for a ethernet device" / type the following in a Terminal

Code:

[~]$ dmesg | grep eth <--- type this
eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:21:70:c6:32:d8   <--- my system found a broacom device under eth0

cheers, chik3n

bipbip · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:11 pm

wicd manage also the RJ45 connection.
What type of LAN do you have on this computer ? (lspci)

Bip

jacek gozdz · **Joined:** Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:54 pm **Posts:** 9

I MAY have the same problem

everything worked perfectly well on ZW 6.2, 6.0 ... but today:

Fresh and clean 6.4 installation, no errors, wicd works but there is no wired (I don't have wireless) connection. I checked and kernel module (e1000e) for my intel PRO (Intel 82566DM PCIe Gigabit LAN controller to be correct) is there, ifconfig shows eth0 (with no ip and other stuff) and dhcpc (or whatever it is) is able to get the right ip from my router. Still the ip is not assigned to eth0 (ifconfig output is the same as before and there is no connection).

Wicd does not help, no matter what settings are used. It shows "getting IP address" then "connecting done" and finally "no connection".

Any idea?

stillborn · **Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:58 pm

jacek gozdz wrote:

I MAY have the same problem

everything worked perfectly well on ZW 6.2, 6.0 ... but today:

Fresh and clean 6.4 installation, no errors, wicd works but there is no wired (I don't have wireless) connection. I checked and kernel module (e1000e) for my intel PRO (Intel 82566DM PCIe Gigabit LAN controller to be correct) is there, ifconfig shows eth0 (with no ip and other stuff) and dhcpc (or whatever it is) is able to get the right ip from my router. Still the ip is not assigned to eth0 (ifconfig output is the same as before and there is no connection).

Wicd does not help, no matter what settings are used. It shows "getting IP address" then "connecting done" and finally "no connection".

Any idea?

This reminds me that we had kernelfirmware package on 6.2 for e100/e1000. Do we need it now too, anyone?
(i can't check, at work now and using phone).

franco · **Joined:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:36 pm **Posts:** 1287

If you did look in wicd/preferences/g.settings that the network interfaces has been correctly detected and in external programms have you try whit DHCP in automatic and
in wired network/properties you have to try to check dhcp hostname.
If you did all this trying to refresh the connection everytime and still not work
disconnect all and uncheck any automatic connection in wicd. Run netconfig as root. See if it works.

jacek gozdz · **Joined:** Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:54 pm **Posts:** 9

@ franco
Thanks for the tips but none of them works. netconfig says that basic network was set up but this does not mean I actually have an internet connection. I am starting to believe it is kernel issue. Downloaded the source and latest intel e1000e driver and will try to compile one myself.

PS
I noticed that I can not mount my windows partition - "can not mount ntfs filesystem". This release is getting more and more strange to me.

bipbip · **Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:23 pm

Did you have a look in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf if the module is not present in ?
If it is the case, try to comment the line in the file.

what is the result lsmod | grep ee ?

Bip

franco · **Joined:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:36 pm **Posts:** 1287

# Alternate Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 support driver. List it
# here so it won't conflict with an already-loaded eepro100 module.
blacklist e100
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

franco · **Joined:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:36 pm **Posts:** 1287

viewtopic.php?f=46&t=27797
It doesn't sound familiar?

jacek gozdz · **Joined:** Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:54 pm **Posts:** 9

The blacklist is not an issue. I commenting/uncommenting there change nothing. My card is detected and working it just does not get IP from dhcpcd.
Below I add result of lsmod. As you can see there is e1000e. I can add e1000 and e100 and nothing happens. Dhcpcd gets the right IP address from my router and then is "forking to background". eth0 still does not get this IP. It looks like something happens in between.

By the way - windows get the ip normally, and ZW 6.2 worked flawlessly, so this must be strictly ZW 6.4 issue.

Unfortunately I am not familiar with scripts and can not track the issue (I even don't know where to start).

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1         2732  1 
vfat                      5428  1 
fat                        29756  1 vfat
pcmcia                  18016  0 
pcmcia_core           17052  1 pcmcia
iptable_mangle         812  0 
iptable_nat             1688  0 
nf_nat                    8220  1 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4    5704  3 iptable_nat,nf_nat
nf_conntrack           28096  3 iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv4         504  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
iptable_filter            668  0 
ip_tables                 6756  3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
x_tables                  6284  2 iptable_nat,ip_tables
video                      12424  0 
output                    756  1 video
lp                          4972  0 
fuse                      35672  3 
fan                        1452  0 
battery                 5996  0 
ac                        1708  0 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   155068  1 
snd_hda_intel          14716  1 
snd_hda_codec        32604  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                 33216  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer                10412  1 snd_pcm
snd                        26924  7 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
ppdev                     3724  0 
ohci1394                 18628  0 
usb_storage             21132  1 
parport_pc               22088  1 
i2c_i801                  5664  0 
soundcore               2696  1 snd
intel_agp                 16344  0 
ieee1394                 41292  1 ohci1394
parport                    17888  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
e1000e                    82172  0 
agpgart                   15980  1 intel_agp
i2c_core                  9212  1 i2c_i801
evdev                     4892  3 
sg                          14852  0 
asus_atk0110            6160  0 
snd_page_alloc          3848  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
hwmon                    740  1 asus_atk0110
processor                18736  0 
thermal                   7784  0 
button                    2856  0 
ehci_hcd                 23704  0 
uhci_hcd                 13372  0 

franco · **Joined:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:36 pm **Posts:** 1287

Use System/LsHW
look for Ethernet interface
and post the results

This is mine as example

Ethernet interface
/0/100/1c.5/0

product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10EC:8168]
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. [10EC]
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:22:15:ee:83:43
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities:
Power Management,
Message Signalled Interrupts,
PCI Express,
MSI-X,
Vital Product Data,
bus mastering,
PCI capabilities listing,
extension ROM,
ethernet,
Physical interface,
twisted pair,
Media Independant Interface,
10MB/s,
10MB/s (full duplex),
100MB/s,
100MB/s (full duplex),
1GB/s,
1GB/s (full duplex),
Auto-negotiation
configuration:
autonegotiation: on
broadcast: yes
driver: r8169
driverversion: 2.3LK-NAPI
duplex: half
latency: 0
link: no
multicast: yes
port: MII
speed: 10MB/s
resources:
irq: 29
ioport: e800(size=256)
memory: fcfff000-fcffffff(prefetchable)
memory: fcfe0000-fcfeffff(prefetchable)
memory: febf0000-febfffff(prefetchable)

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