On Thursday 16 February 2006 06:28, Per Jessen wrote:
Bob S wrote:
First, I did a lot of cutting and rearranging of your message for clarity.
There's something odd about your built-in NIC not showing up on lspci - are you sure the NIC is enabled in the BIOS? If it's not on lspci, there isn't much YaST (nor anyone else) can do.
Duh....... You were correct. Hidden in the bowels of the bios I found that the lan was turned off. Turned it on and the proceeded with what you suggested.
Yast doesn't list the 8169 driver, only the 8129/8139,
Dunno about YaST, but I've got a 10.0 system with kernel 2.6.13-15.7-default and one of the gigabit drivers is:
OK, I have the same kernel.
"Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support"
I can load the module : "modprobe r8169", but I as don't have such a card, well :-)
OK, I did that and I can see it in /proc/modules
modprobe r8169 - post the last few lines of dmesg
OK, here the first look at dmesg: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team r8169: eth0: link up eth0: no IPv6 routers present r8169: eth0: link down r8169: eth0: link up r8169: eth0: link up eth0: no IPv6 routers present r8169: eth0: link down r8169: eth0: link up r8169: eth0: link up CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 eth0: no IPv6 routers present EasyStreet:/ # I then had to turn the computer off for awhile. When I booted it up again I ran dmesg again. This is what I got the second time: (about half way down)
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'. eth0: RTL8169 at 0xffffc2000001ef00, 00:11:09:62:99:fc, IRQ 185 ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable Another 60 or 70 lines further down I found this: r8169: eth0: link up And another 25 or so lines down, this: (about 25 lines from the end) eth0: no IPv6 routers present Soooo. Not sure where I stand now. Still can't see the router. If I type in the address 192.168.0.1 in Konqueror I get this: An error occurred while loading http://192.168.0.1/: Could not connect to host 192.168.0.1. Is there any other way to see if the ethernet port is open/working?? Bob S.