dhcp problem

[deadmnky]

so i have installed ubuntu 7.10 on a new desktop computer.
i have comcast cable internet. the desktop is brand new asus m2a-vm hdmi it has 100m Gbit lan ATI radeon x1250 graphic built into the motherboard with an amd athalon 6400 64x2 dual core cpu i have 2 gig ram and what not. i have updated the bios to 1603 from 502as well. i have not installed any of the drivers that came with the cd for the mother board as i do not know what to do in that area. my friend does not know how to sett linux up on a new system and niether do i.
i have tried setting it through the network settings but does not change any thing
i do have my laptop running 7.10 studio edition and it all works fine but i just deleted windows from it and put linux on it.
do i have to set up raid or anything to finish the setup on the new computer

[deadmnky]

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:FC:1F:8F:84
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6720 (6.5 KB) TX bytes:1368 (1.3 KB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x8000

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: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)


can any one explain what this means and if this can help resolve the no internet on a desktop that would be nice. if you need any more info please let me know what you need. i will find it an post it.

[Agent-X]

1. Do you have the computer connected to the Internet cable/cord?
2. Did you try

sudo dhclient

at the commant prompt / terminal?

What does it say?

3. Could you paste the output of lspci?
4. What does

ping google.com

give you?

5. What does the output of

lsmod

say?

[deadmnky]

everything works now i got working the night of this thread i think it was a modem issue it only recognized my laptop now my laptop does not go online. i dont know yet on that one but it is the same issue i will get back to you.

[deadmnky]

so here is the info from sudo dhclient on my laptop

Listening on LPF/eth1/00:1a:73:42:b5:80
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:1a:73:42:b5:80
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1b:24:b6:4e:1c
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1b:24:b6:4e:1c
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

i am not so sure what it all means but i am going to assume it can not detect a dhcp number for online access
when i ping google.com nothing happens no response

the lsmod output was as follows.

lsmod output
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 5120 1
nls_cp437 6784 1
vfat 14336 1
fat 54684 1 vfat
usb_storage 73536 1
libusual 18704 1 usb_storage
ipv6 281444 8
snd_rtctimer 4384 1
ppdev 10244 0
powernow_k8 16960 0
cpufreq_userspace 5280 0
cpufreq_conservative 8072 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_stats 7488 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9612 1
freq_table 5792 3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
battery 11012 0
dock 11124 0
video 18060 11
sbs 19848 0
container 5504 0
button 9104 0
ac 6276 0
parport_pc 37796 0
lp 13252 0
parport 38216 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
loop 19588 0
joydev 11456 0
snd_hda_intel 263840 1
snd_pcm_oss 44928 0
snd_mixer_oss 17664 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 80644 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 33792 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
snd_rawmidi 25728 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8576 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54128 7 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
bcm43xx 127848 0
snd_timer 24324 3 snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9228 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
ieee80211softmac 31232 1 bcm43xx
psmouse 40208 0
ide_cd 32800 0
ieee80211 36040 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
cdrom 37664 1 ide_cd
ieee80211_crypt 7168 1 ieee80211
serio_raw 8196 0
snd 55172 12 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,sn d_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_de vice
nvidia 6222896 36
pcspkr 4352 0
soundcore 9312 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
k8temp 6784 0
agpgart 35284 1 nvidia
i2c_nforce2 7168 0
shpchp 34964 0
i2c_core 26880 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
pci_hotplug 33460 1 shpchp
af_packet 25352 10
evdev 11136 6
iptable_nat 8836 0
nf_nat 20780 1 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 19852 2 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack 67592 3 iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nfnetlink 7064 3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
iptable_mangle 3840 0
iptable_filter 3968 0
ip_tables 13924 3 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
x_tables 16772 2 iptable_nat,ip_tables
ext3 134536 1
jbd 59688 1 ext3
mbcache 9860 1 ext3
sg 36764 0
sd_mod 30976 4
amd74xx 15388 0 [permanent]
ide_core 118980 3 usb_storage,ide_cd,amd74xx
sata_nv 20612 1
ata_generic 8580 0
ohci_hcd 22788 0
ehci_hcd 36108 0
libata 125424 2 sata_nv,ata_generic
forcedeth 50952 0
scsi_mod 148844 4 usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata
usbcore 139912 5 usb_storage,libusual,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
thermal 14600 0
processor 32200 2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan 5892 0
fuse 48404 1
apparmor 41624 0
commoncap 8320 1 apparmor


what does lsmod do in this case what is all the info that got posted. i have yet to try it on he desk top since it is working but i figure it would be helpful to know what all this info is and what to do with it

[coopstah13]

how are you connecting to the internet? are you using a router to share your connection? If you aren't, every time you plug in your modem to the computer you want to access the internet on, you have to restart the modem, instead of having to do this its easier to get a router

[deadmnky]

cable modem. i am thinking of just setting up the wireless card for a coffee shop computer. but that would make sense. i tried that at first on the desktop just had to it a couple of times. thank you for at least telling me that was how i got it working.