Cable wired network not working with linux

[ShinkaS]

I have a desktop computer with 2 hard drives, one with WinXp and the other with linux, my wired internet connection works on WinXp but not on linux. I have a nForce 4 chipset with a D-Link DFE 538TX network card. I'm currently on Ubuntu 9.04 32 bits, but I also tried Linux Mint 32 bits and openSUSE 11.1 64 bits.

I got help from #ubuntu and I was asked to do;

sudo su
updatedb

And then in the folder with 8139cp.ko;

modprobe -i 8139cp

He said that "if it works you'll need to add it to /etc/modules I think so it will be insmoded every time your system starts" ==> how do I do that ?

Anyway it didn't work and the guy had to go to sleep, I have really no idea what to do next...

The result of ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:b0:68:58:26  
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:b0ff:fe68:5826/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[b2bwild]

The network device is detected and working.
Only thing is it doesn't have any address assigned.
This could happen if you don't have a router/machine running dhcp.

Just assign address and subnet manually.

[ShinkaS]

oh great !

And how on earth can I do that ?

[b2bwild]

use these commands.

ifconfig eth0 x.x.x.x

replace x.x.x.x with desired ip address.

ifconfig eth0 netmask x.x.x.x

replace x.x.x.x with the subnetmask

ifconfig eth0 broadcast x.x.x.x

replace x.x.x.x with broadcast address.

Or you can open the Control center (yast) -> Administration -> Network
and set everything graphically.

[ShinkaS]

Ok I'll go try that... however I guess I can't just choose any IP I want, should I use the same one my WinXP partition gets ?

Thank you very much for the help, I'm a true newbie...

[b2bwild]

Yes, you can surely use one which you have on XP.
and, Even im a newbie.

[ShinkaS]

I must have messed up somewhere, I tried 'ipconfig' on windows to get my IP and subnetmask, then I went on tech-faq to calculate the broadcast address. Finally on Ubuntu 9.04 32bits I tried the 3 commands you gave me;

sudo su
ifconfig eth0 X.X.X.X
ifconfig eth0 netmask X.X.X.X
ifconfig eth0 broadcast X.X.X.X

(of course with the values I found on WinXP) and then;

ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:b0:68:58:26  
          inet addr:X.X.X.X  Bcast:X.X.X.X  Mask:X.X.X.X
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:b0ff:fe68:5826/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

I don't know if I had to do something else, but I tried to go to the internet with firefox and... nothing (the terminal remained open but it didn't make any difference). I tried again (on Ubuntu) to get auto eth0 and;

ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:b0:68:58:26  
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:b0ff:fe68:5826/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:3200 (3.2 KB)  TX bytes:3200 (3.2 KB)

[b2bwild]

Do this....

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

You will find something like this

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Replace it with this.

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address x.x.x.x
netmask x.x.x.x
gateway x.x.x.x

x.x.x.x = your entries.

Then

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

All done.
You can close or disable nm-applet if you want.
Or you can also use nm-applet to configure your network statically.

[Shinka]

Nope....

I did;

sudo su
gedit /etc/network/interfaces

I found;

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

I replaced it with

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address x.x.x.x
netmask x.x.x.x
gateway x.x.x.x

Then

/etc/init.d/networking restart

With the gateway I got from the calculator (or any other random gateway) I got;

* Reconfiguring network interfaces...
SIOCADDRT: No such process
Failed to bring up eth0.

But I tried another gateway (ending with 1) and I got;

* Reconfiguring network interfaces...
SIOCDELRT: No such process
grep: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory
before doing NFS mounts]: waiting for interface eth0

Not sure if it's better...

[coopstah13]

you need to keep the lo interface, don't delete that, you will have problems, if you are setting a static IP in that file, you should also set the nameservers statically in that file as well

nameserver x.x.x.x