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Sorry if this is a really dumb question but... I am trying to get my net connection working via a Netgear DG834 on a LAN. I have been trying for ...
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  1. 10-21-2004 #1
    Martynguk2002
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    Is my hardware working?

    Sorry if this is a really dumb question but...

    I am trying to get my net connection working via a Netgear DG834 on a LAN.

    I have been trying for a few days and can't seem to get access to the router, I am starting to wonder (being a newbie) If my network card is actually working, when mandrake boots up with no LAN cable plugged in it says bringing up eth0 [failed] (with the cable plugged in it just hangs) I had assumed that it was failing because there was no LAN to connect to but now think its that the network card is not recognised and that I may need to install drivers for it.

    I have had a look in HardDrake and it shows up in there and looks quite happy (at least I think it does)

    The card is Realtek RTL 8139/810x PCI fast ethernet NIC

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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  2. 10-21-2004 #2
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    Code:
    ifconfig eth0 up
    what does that do?
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  3. 10-24-2004 #3
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    This is the output of running DHCPCD and then ifconfig eth0 up. to me it looks like its working. Gives me an ip address that is correct for my router set up etc. but when I try to navigate to the routers IP to set it up (that I can do under windows) I just get a message saying it couldnt connect.

    Any ideas?

    Code:
    [root@localhost sbin]# dhcpcd
[root@localhost sbin]# dhcpcd.exe: interface eth0 has been configured with old IP=192.168.0.5
#This window then hangs
#In new console window
[root@localhost sbin]# ./ifconfig eth0 up
[root@localhost sbin]# ./ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:61:2A:6A:0A
          inet addr:192.168.0.5  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:590 (590.0 b)  TX bytes:650 (650.0 b)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0x7000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3914 (3.8 Kb)  TX bytes:3914 (3.8 Kb)
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  4. 10-24-2004 #4
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    ping your router:
    Code:
    ping 192.168.0.1
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  5. 10-24-2004 #5
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    This is the result of pinging the routers IP

    Code:
    [martyn@localhost sbin]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:61:2A:6A:0A
          inet addr:192.168.0.5  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:590 (590.0 b)  TX bytes:650 (650.0 b)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0x7000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:10548 (10.3 Kb)  TX bytes:10548 (10.3 Kb)

[martyn@localhost sbin]$ ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.0.5 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.5 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.5 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.5 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.5 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.5 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.5 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable
    and it just carries on doing this. I did this earlier today and it got in excess of icmp_seq=1000.
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  6. 10-24-2004 #6
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    that's very strange. are you sure that your router's IP is indeed 192.168.0.1?
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  7. 10-24-2004 #7
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    Yeah 100% thats the IP I use to connect to it under windows and it works fine.
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