Strange problem with RealTek NIC

[vaibhav92]

Hi,

I am just up and running with suse 10.3 but i am into a strange problem with my Realtec 8168 onboard NIC. Well this card is detect by suse and i can see it in my ifconfig entries. It says that the interface is active and all the information listed (static ip and gateway) are correct. But the network card itself is not powered up!!!

I know this because the corrosponding port indicator at my hub is not active. That probably means that the card hasnt actually powered up. Though linux is detecting it properly and showing it as active.

Also since the card isnt actually powered up i cant access any other device on my network. This same card is working flawlessly in windows xp.

Please help me out of this puzzeling problem.

Thanks,
Vaibhav

[ironduke]

try typing

ifup eth0

assuming that eth0 is your network interface

please post the result of your ifconfig command here (if you can).

[vaibhav92]

Thanks for replying..

Here is my output from ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:191:B4:3C:86
inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xe000

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:4012 (3.9 Kb) TX bytes:4012 (3.9 Kb)

and the ifstatus eth0 command too

eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
eth0 is up
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:19:d1:b4:3c:86 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.12/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0
eth0 IP address: 192.168.0.12/24
Configured routes for interface eth0:
default 192.168.0.1 - -
169.254.0.0 - 255.255.0.0 eth0
Active routes for interface eth0:
192.168.0.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.12
169.254.0.0/16 scope link
default via 192.168.0.1
1 of 2 configured routes for interface eth0 up