wired ethernet problem in Lucid on HP Pavillion dv6000

[Alvin]

On Tuesday 25 May 2010 14:47:13 O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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.
> >> 
> 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

- Are you using /etc/network/interfaces or network-manager?
- How did you set a static ip? ifconfig, or at boot?
- How did you request DHCP? $ sudo dhclient3 eth1

You might also want to take a look in
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules