10.04 Ubuntu with Realtek 8169 NIC problems (Not linking)

[RoyAnnashi]

I have been up all night throwing together an old computer to run ubuntu on it to set it up as a server, and have become completely blocked of this goal by not being able to connect to my network. Been trying to troubleshoot it myself for quite awhile, and haven't been able to, I'll post as much as I can, I don't have the direct yields of my command entries.

Main specs:

Single boot system (Unix only) no windows on the pc, reformatted it gone for this project.

Realtek 8169 NIC.

Network:

Home PC -> Router --Works fine
gaming systems -> Router --Works fine
Linux-> Router - Problem

Router doesn't even signify that the linux system is trying to connect

The NIC does work with windows fine, this is a system I just refurbished.


Main things I've tried, have tried others as well typing a lot of these up because I cant copy it

Sudo ifconfig yields:

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:76:b4:b1:
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 KB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 KB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe00

I can't readily get all of the yields, but I can sum them up

sudo lshw-c network



*network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: b
bus info:
pci@0000:00:0b.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:0c:76:b4:b1:0c
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration:
autonegotiation = on
broadcast = yes
driver = r8169
driverversion = 2.3LK NAPI
duplex = half
latency = 64
link = no
maxlatency = 64
mingnt = 32
multicast = yes
port = MII
speed = 10MB/s
resources: (memory locations will type if needed)

Prodding the module yields nothing

Can't pull an ip
Cant ping router
Cant connect to router through direct LAN IP

Network connections in ubuntu show the ethernet but it won't link, also no ethernet lights go on.



If anyone has any ideas, let me know, apparently this is a horrible NIC to work with using linux from what I can see, but aside from another motherboard I have nothing else to use right now.

[hatebreed]

ifconfig eth0
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up

see what this does. also if you right click your network icon in the top right corner, you should see an option for auto eth0, try that also.

[RoyAnnashi]

Auto eth0 is the connection Im trying to use, up and down after the ifconfig yield nothing and ifconfig eth0 just of course tells me the device info.

I have tried static and dynamic ips as well.

Big thing is no link, no light activity on lan port



Edit:


Just tried connecting straight to modem at itworked, so I have no isolated that my Router is where the problem is

I have a WNR854T and it doesn't wake up the Linux's NIC, no lights or anything direct into modem it wakes right up.

Any ideas?

[hatebreed]

have you tried different ports? have you tried to reboot your router? have you did a hard reset of router?

[RoyAnnashi]

Different Ports yes, Complete Router reset no, Hard reset no.

I don't see how this would help, everything else on my network is fine but I will give it a shot and post back, I don't want to end up messing up the rest of my network.

Also this router is giving me problems anyway, it quits pulling an ip from the modem it's connected too, so Im going to be getting a new one, and maybe that will fix my problems hopefully.