Is it possible to manually activate an eth0 connection?

[Eberhard Roloff]

Bas Roufs wrote:

> 
> bas at Viaconsensus2:~$ ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:ca:bc:9e:88
>           inet addr:192.168.1.20  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           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)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1800


Hi Bas,

ok. This looks pretty good, at least it seems so. ;-)
Note, that the card is using Interrupt (IRQ) 10

Now, from here try to ping your router
"ping 192.168.1.254" and your desktop "ping 192.168.1.33", respectively.

Each command goes without the quotes.

Post back, whether this works


> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
[...]
> 
> pan0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5e:2f:b1:00:15:0b
>           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:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> 
What is this?
Presumably this is your pcmcia card??
If so, I would remove it for now.

Questions:
==Have you tried setting your Bios to "DOS", as suggested?
What happened?

==Have you tried using acpi=off on your kernel line in your 
/boot/grub/menu.lst, as suggested?
What happened?

==Have you tried activating your card in the BIOS, as suggested?
What happened

==Also please have a look at your BIOS to make certain that IRQ 10 (see 
above) is not used by anything else?

==Also try to set any PCI entry in your Bios to "auto", if there are 
IRQs, that are set fixed for certain devices.

If you change Bios settings, it is alway good to note what you changed, 
should you need to revert to the original state, later.

regards
Eberhard