wired ethernet problem in Lucid on HP Pavillion dv6000

[O. Sinclair]

William Hamra wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 02:04 PM, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> Have installed Lucid on a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop with Nvidia and 
>> Broadcom.
>>
>> Wireless works and I have managed to get Nvidia drivers installed for 
>> graphics. But strangely enough (to me) wired ethernet is not working. I 
>> can set an address manually though nothing happens, I can not connect 
>> via DHCP and I do not get any traffic going.
>>
>> lspci gives the info "ethernet controller.... Nvidia MPC65 Ethernet (rev 
>> a3)" if that means something to anyone out there.
>>
>> Any help appreciated,
>>
>> Sinclair
>>
> 
If I set a fixed IP number it is perfectly normal, if I don't it never 
picks up any IP. Let me see if I can be more specifice, hold on. this is 
after trying with DHCP:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:24:bd:d9:aa
           inet6 addr: fe80::21b:24ff:febd:d9aa/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:1436 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:265 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:132107 (132.1 KB)  TX bytes:36279 (36.2 KB)
           Interrupt:20 Base address:0x2000

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:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:7684 (7.6 KB)  TX bytes:7684 (7.6 KB)

wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1a:73:a6:0f:ec
           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)