That Compac Presario again no networking

[Jay Daniels]

On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 20:52 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 17:01 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> > On 07/19/2009 02:03 PM, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > > These kids are driving me crazy to fix this pos computer...  This is the
> > > second post on this matter, I gave up the first time.
> > > 
> > > I can't understand this Compac Presario.  I have no networking, but for
> > > all I know according to ifconifg, route, etc. It should be working.
> > > Linksys assigned ip and updated resolv.conf  I tried 8.04 and 9.04 and
> > > slackware 10!
> > > 
> > > I have an ip, I can even see atlabs-1 on the linksys.
> > > 
> > > Why won't networking work on this cheap walmart computer with Realtek
> > > 8139too loaded and /etc/resolv.conf is updated but nothing working,
> > > ping, localnet, nothing.
> > > 
> > > Worked perfect in XP, even tried swapping cables and ports.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas short of throwing a nic at it?  Would it be easier to get a
> > > linksys usb wifi adapter to work on this junk?
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Presario
> > Care to try again with some details?
> > 
> > 
> 
> SR1603wm  i wonder what the wm stands for WindowsMachine:( or
> WindowsMess?
> 
> Windows XP says Realtek 8139 network device.  Ubuntu says 8139too module
> loaded.
> 
> I do route and it shows default route same as my notebook except I'm
> using wlan0 and wifi on notebook.  Compac shows eth0
> 
> I do ifconfig and it shows ip address and all the normal lo interface
> and eth0
> 
> Pull up linksys and it shows ip address for computer, but the computer
> can't ping, you can't ping computer etc.
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf shows everything on the working computer.
> 
> At least that's what I get when I first boot up.  After disconnect with
> panel applet it never even shows connected again and there is no route
> now, cannot reconnect.  Did not even work when it showed connected...
> 
> Furthermore, the video comes up in low resolution.  Oh neat-O, not
> recognizing built in ati radeon either.  So I grab a usb thumb drive
> hoping to run some test and cp over to my notebook and put in this help
> request.  Hum, does not recognize it:(
> 
> heck with it, I insert Windows 7 RC1 (sure it recognize anything
> right?), hum machine will not boot from dvd, only cdroms.
> 
> This things not even 3 years old and hardly used.  I guess they get
> walmart to sell all their old outdated crap.  Like karl said, they sold
> out to HP  - this one isn't listed anymore.  Didn't come with XP restore
> disk and it was xmas and nobody thought to make one.
> 
> hum, we have 2 of these boxes, I will try and recover drive in the other
> one we robbed the memory out of.  I was hoping I could get Ubuntu up on
> it since no restore disk and I'm not buying any disk or running
> unlicensed version.  heck for the price of a licensed windows disk I
> could buy them a netbook.  I've blown so much money over the years
> buying software, no more....
> 


That spelled Compaq.  Any way, I disabled acpi and all other suggestions
I could find online mii-tool etc.  Nothing worked.  Tried setting up
manually with IP, default route, dns address, etc.  Still nothing.

When I first boot it shows connected, but nothing works.  I do..
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

and it will never even show connected again.



jay d.
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