wired ethernet problem in Lucid on HP Pavillion dv6000

[O. Sinclair]

Alvin wrote:
> 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
> 
I tried with network-manager and with wicd, have not tried messing 
around with cli configurations .... yet. Will try your suggestions