Ethernet Problems

[djriff]

I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a empty hard drive.
Here are my system specs
Asus P6T-e x58 MB
i7930 2.8ghz
ATI 4850 Sapphire
6 gigs Corsair Ram

i am trying to use the on board ethernet port and all it gives me is a red light an connectivity to my router at all. Is there something i'm missing here? I'm new to linux and any help is much appreciated. I did read some stuff about sky2 but was unsure what that did exactly.

[Kloschüssel]

* is the cable physically connected?
* which interfaces are there (sudo ifconfig)?
* is the interface up (sudo ifconfig ethX)?
* if not up the interface (sudo ifconfig ethX up)

At this point the ifconfig should run the dhclient (dhcp client) which will try to get an ip address configuration from your router device. If you use a static ip configuration set up your ip address statically (use a search engine to get that information).

[djriff]

yes it was, i don't know how to set up the other stuff tho, i am brand new at linux lol.

[Kloschüssel]

yes it was what? I'm really bad in guessing.

the commands i put in parenteses [()] are something you can type into a command line window like ash/bash/sh.

[djriff]

As in yes it was plugged in. When I get back home I'll run those commads and see what comes up. I was reading the sticky about Sudo last night and ran the command fdisk -1 without sudo and with sudo. It gave ne te exact same results.

[Kloschüssel]

As in yes it was plugged in. When I get back home I'll run those commads and see what comes up. I was reading the sticky about Sudo last night and ran the command fdisk -1 without sudo and with sudo. It gave ne te exact same results.

well, if you're superuser (i.e. root) it makes no difference. sudo just lets you execute commands like if you were a superuser. therefore it is also a short form of "superuserdo". therefore also beware what you execute as superuser. you are able to blow your fresh new installation to netherland.

[MikeTbob]

Keep in mind also, it seems you issued a typo. The command is

fdisk -l

That a lowercase L for List, Not fdisk -1,

[jayd512]

Has your ethernet worked with other Linux installs? Or is this your first go at it?
Use both of these commands, post back the output:

lspci
ifconfig -a

[hatebreed]

maybe its just me but didn't you say that you had a red light on your ethernet port? if so, this isn't software related but rather hardware. You should have a green and amber light as soon as you plug in your cable to your card, whether it gets the ip or not.

[djriff]

Has your ethernet worked with other Linux installs? Or is this your first go at it?
Use both of these commands, post back the output:

lspci
ifconfig -a

was there anything in particular that you were looking for in th Zat output? Its quite long to type and as i'm using an iphone to post here that would take a long time to type up.

when i typed Sudo ifconfig ethX it popped up with ethX: error fetching interfave information: Device not found. Thinking that X could be a number i tried 1 -5. All of it came up with that exact same dialog.

Sudo ifconfig ethX up popped up with; ethX: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device.

i know it is hooked up properly on the MB everything else works fine, well minus the USB ports which is another issue i plan on solving after i can update my PC.