From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E27dW-0006Fn-Qh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:25:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j78DO5ig025905; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:24:05 GMT Received: from smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j78DJl25019906 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:19:48 GMT Received: (qmail 45940 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2005 13:20:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.101?) (richard?j?fish@68.230.97.177 with plain) by smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Aug 2005 13:20:05 -0000 Message-ID: <42F75C07.1060904@asmallpond.org> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 06:20:07 -0700 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050807) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Acer TM2313 NIC problems References: <1123485124.6085.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1123485124.6085.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0ab5077e-5b42-43d3-a0fa-b9ce0c85b094 X-Archives-Hash: c325ae0c7fbb4a46941e8e5c14f52a92 Frank Schafer wrote: >Hi, > >I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this >weekend. >Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection. > >The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' >there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading, finding the card >and bringing the link up. > >The lights on the NIC are both (continous) lighting. If I do an >``ifconfig eth0 down'' followed by an ``ifconfig eth0 up`` the lights >turn both off for about one second and then both on again. > > Did you assign an address when you did "ifconfig eth0 up"? Or does your network use DHCP, and if so, did you run dhcpcd/dhclient to get an address? The output of "ifconfig -a", "route -n", and "cat /etc/conf.d/net" might give us some more clues. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list