Is it possible to manually activate an eth0 connection?

[Eberhard Roloff]

Hi Bas,

thanks for posting such a detailed response!
See further down...

Bas Roufs wrote:

> SUMMARY
> 
> When 'DOS' is indicated in the BIOS settings als 'Standard OS, ping
> tests reveal connections between the laptop on one hand and the rest
> of the network on the other hand: via eth0, the RJ45 accessible LAN
> PORT. However, according to 'KMANAGENER', eth0 is still 'unmanaged'.

You might forget about knetworkmanager, as long as it is working.

> The browser 'Konqueror' still does not indicate any working internet
> connection. One of the possible causes of this problem might be the
> three functions of one IRQ only: IRQ 10 dealing with eth0 and 2 other
> functions at the same time. I do not yet know how to move those 2
> other functions to other, still empty IRQ's.
> I am not yet sure, whether is this IRQ 10 problem is the only problem
> which hampers the internet connection I am trying to establish.

No, there is basically nothing that hampers your internet connection, see
futher down.

> 
>> Now, from here try to ping your router
>> "ping 192.168.1.254" and your desktop "ping 192.168.1.33",
>> respectively.
> 
> 
> General conclusions on the ping tests
> =======================
> When the BIOS settings have been set to 'DOS' as 'standard OS',
> ping-communication between the LAN Port and the router/ network is
> possible. But with the BIOS-settings set to 'Windows XP', no
> ping-communication is possible.

great, so DOS is what you need.

> The best results so far come out of the tests with 'eth0' as
> communication device. Results from tests via 'eth1', the PCMCIA
> ethernet card, are much less interesting. From now on, I focus to
> 'eth0' for further attempts to establish an effectively working LAN
> connection between the laptop and router.

great, eth0 works with ping and that means:
your network is working! Congratulations!

Eth1 does not work for some reason but as you say, you do not need to
care. Simply remove the eth1 pcmcia card, for now.

What you need to have is a working default gateway entry with the
correct router address x.x.x.254, as has been pointed out.

Furthermore you need to have a working DNS setting, otherwise you will
not have name resolution, which will make your internet appear to be not
working!

My suggestion would be to now convert your complete eth0 configuration
to dhcp and this should be all that is left to have a working network!!

Kind regards
Eberhard