[SOLVED] Help with network cards¡!!!!!!!!

[shemdroid]

OK first I have not been able to make any progress in the Ubuntu forums so I'm looking in a broader spectrum.
I have a Toshiba satellite c655d-s5130, win7ultimate duel boot with Ubuntu 10.04.3
network cards all work with window but can't get them to work with Linux. I have tried opensuse, fedora, mint, and Ubuntu and Ubuntu 10.04 is the only one that will even load on my machine without glitches. save for the network card issue.

I have the right driver and I'm certain of that.
lshw -c network shows both cards as network UNCLAIMED.
An install attempt with opens use 12.1 showed both cards as disconnected from the link.
this is the best I can do until I get off work in about 6 hrs any help is greatly appreciated

[BoDiddley]

I suspect the problem is Windows -vs-Linux., wherein Windows will increasingly find ways to prevent you from using Linux. There is probably a switch to turn-on only when running Windows. They more advanced Windows get - I suspect, the harder you will find it to install Linux. This is why they were sucessfully sued in Europe years ago (monopoly).

My system is not new. However, I did find slight inconsistencies from time to time regarding my direct network connection. There is a Linux switch in "network-config". I am Debian. Even when my direct connect was working, I found the switch to be deselected upon initial installation. I selected eth0, and did a test, everything has been fine ever since.

For this and other reasons, I am no longer dual-boot, Linux/Debian drives everything. Something I also think you can no longer do if the box ships with Windows on it. Soon we will see an increase of demand for systems to ship without a OS. I believe they actually cost more. And then the manufacturers also have gimmicks.

Try network-config. It will be difficult to find after installation. Look in other, on the menu which lists all installed software - you will find it somewhere,even if not in alphabetical order.

[shemdroid]

i ran it from the terminal. this is the output:
shemdroid@shemdroid-laptop:~$ network-config
starting gksu /usr/bin/network-config...
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIR at /usr/bin/network-config line 2719.Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/network-config line 1200.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/network-config line 1200.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/network-config line 1200.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/network-config line 1200.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/network-config line 1200.
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/bin/network-config line 639.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/network-config line 785.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/network-config line 1200.
Perl exited with active threads:
0 running and unjoined
1 finished and unjoined
0 running and detached

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

Take a look at this page: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tart-here.html
Post back here with all requested info. Someone should be able to help get you going.

[shemdroid]

$ ping -c 6 -i 0.2
Usage: ping [-LRUbdfnqrvVaA] [-c count] [-i interval] [-w deadline]
[-p pattern] [-s packetsize] [-t ttl] [-I interface or address]
[-M mtu discovery hint] [-S sndbuf]
[ -T timestamp option ] [ -Q tos ] [hop1 ...] destination

[BoDiddley]

I am afraid that network-config output is like Latin to me(I am not advanced). Using the GUI you can establish your network; IE: DNS servers, wlan, eth0 - and run a test. The output from the GUI network-config test should be in a language we can both understand.

You should probably also do "man network-config".

[shemdroid]

running ubuntu 10.04.3
2.6.32-38-generic-pae

============ lspci ============
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1510]
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:9803]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 42)
	Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c-piix4
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:15.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:43a0]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:15.1 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:43a1]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:16.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
00:16.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1700] (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1701]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1702]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1703]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1704]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1718]
00:18.6 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1716]
00:18.7 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1719]
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet [1969:2062] (rev c1)
	Kernel modules: atl1c

============ lsusb ============
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 064e:e20a Suyin Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0138 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 18d1:4e22  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

============ lsmod ============
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_cp437               4919  1 
nls_utf8                1069  0 
isofs                  29250  1 
binfmt_misc             6587  1 
ppdev                   5259  0 
snd_hda_intel          22165  2 
snd_hda_codec          74201  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               5412  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss            35308  0 
snd_mixer_oss          13746  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                70918  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           1338  0 
snd_seq_oss            26722  0 
snd_seq_midi            4557  0 
snd_rawmidi            19056  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6003  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                47263  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              19130  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          5700  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    54244  15 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
fbcon                  35102  71 
tileblit                1999  1 fbcon
font                    7557  1 fbcon
bitblit                 4707  1 fbcon
softcursor              1189  1 bitblit
uvcvideo               57470  0 
videodev               34425  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            13251  2 uvcvideo,videodev
psmouse                63677  0 
soundcore               6620  1 snd
ndiswrapper           184867  0 
serio_raw               3978  0 
shpchp                 28899  0 
vga16fb                11385  1 
i2c_piix4               8527  0 
snd_page_alloc          7172  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
video                  17375  0 
output                  1871  1 video
vgastate                8961  1 vga16fb
lp                      7028  0 
parport                32635  2 ppdev,lp
usb_storage            40065  0 
ahci                   32712  3 

============ dmesg-firmware ============

============ kernel version ============
2.6.32-38-generic-pae

============ ifconfig ============
easytether0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:00:54:74:68:72  
          inet addr:192.168.117.2  Bcast:192.168.117.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::54ff:fe74:6872/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2679 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2965 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 
          RX bytes:992637 (992.6 KB)  TX bytes:693693 (693.6 KB)

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:316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:25000 (25.0 KB)  TX bytes:25000 (25.0 KB)


============ iwconfig ============

[shemdroid]

I am afraid that network-config output is like Latin to me(I am not advanced). Using the GUI you can establish your network; IE: DNS servers, wlan, eth0 - and run a test. The output from the GUI network-config test should be in a language we can both understand.

You should probably also do "man network-config".

not sure if network-config is working and not sure how to use "man network-config"

[BoDiddley]

ok do this; "network-config -tl" (tl = TL-this is info only not part of command) will start a configuration for you. I did not complete it but it began with the same options as the GUI.

network-config -tl

[shemdroid]

yea, no new information there