ETH!

Ok, pls Mark dont kill me...but it keeps doing the usual thing...uff.

Sorry also for making here ppl mad, but i have really tried all the
solutions posted here in the forum but nothing. The event that makes linux
go mad is the comp switching off: hard or soft doesnt matter.

After the ethx is brought up everything is just perfect but at the next
boot after a switch off the ethx isnt brought up the most of the times and
i have to remount it again.

riccardo-pini@libero.it adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Ok, pls Mark dont kill me...but it keeps doing the usual thing...uff.

No probs Riccardo,

>
> Sorry also for making here ppl mad, but i have really tried all the
> solutions posted here in the forum but nothing. The event that makes
> linux go mad is the comp switching off: hard or soft doesnt matter.
>
> After the ethx is brought up everything is just perfect but at the
> next boot after a switch off the ethx isnt brought up the most of the
> times and i have to remount it again.

Can you have a look in your BIOS and see if the Plug&Play is set,
whatever it is set at change it to the other ( on -> off, off -> on )
see if that makes anydifference.

Another thing to try is to have the modules loaded on boot by putting
the module name in the sysconfig:

Yast>System>/etc/sysconfig editor>System>kernel>MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT

You can also try to load the modules from /etc/init.d/boot.local

in this file place a:

modprobe <module-name>

This will make sure that the needed modules are loaded at boot and
should be early enough before the network is configured so might help.

HTH
--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

> Can you have a look in your BIOS and see if the Plug&Play is set,
> whatever it is set at change it to the other ( on -> off, off -> on )
> see if that makes anydifference.

In my bios there is not this entry, but ive disabled the resource handling
from auto to manual then leaving the choice of the IRQs to PnP. THen
updated the ESCD. Im reading the plug-and-play HOWTO for Linux found
online. I also set as enabled the wake up events related to pci and is set
to S1.


> Another thing to try is to have the modules loaded on boot by putting
> the module name in the sysconfig:
>
> Yast>System>/etc/sysconfig editor>System>kernel>MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT
>
> You can also try to load the modules from /etc/init.d/boot.local
>
> in this file place a:
>
> modprobe <module-name>
>
> This will make sure that the needed modules are loaded at boot and
> should be early enough before the network is configured so might help.

Will do.

Going to add also "alias net-pf-10 off" in the modprobe.conf

Ill keep you posted.
Thanks,
Ric

My actual situation after some tests of yesterday eve are these: the
Realtek nic which is the only nic in the comp behaves correctly, i can ping
it and if i ask an ifup through console or using the tray icon i see it
going up. I can ping it and i have a good feedback. When i try to ping the
router i get an "host unreachable" mesage even if everything is well set up
in the mcc: gateway ip, static ip for the nic, simply host name for my
comp. What should i check or config now for override this problem? (I mean
let's start from this point: nic ok, getting host unreachable message).

Also the router shows the connection led with the nic stable green while i
get the host unreachable message.

riccardo-pini@libero.it adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> My actual situation after some tests of yesterday eve are these: the
> Realtek nic which is the only nic in the comp behaves correctly, i can
> ping it and if i ask an ifup through console or using the tray icon i
> see it going up. I can ping it and i have a good feedback. When i try
> to ping the router i get an "host unreachable" mesage even if
> everything is well set up in the mcc: gateway ip, static ip for the
> nic, simply host name for my comp. What should i check or config now
> for override this problem? (I mean let's start from this point: nic
> ok, getting host unreachable message).
>
> Also the router shows the connection led with the nic stable green
> while i get the host unreachable message.

Hi Riccardo,

I know you say you have setup the gateway and all that but what is the
output of ( as root):

route

And also what is the network address of your router/modem.

Also what have you got for your DNS entries?



--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

Finally im able from that comp to post some text file about some commands.
Pls note that the first ifconfig was before the nic started to work in
answer to some of my ifup and ifdown. Also ive found the nics works well
it's their connection to the router that is lacking.

CODE
[root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:5E:53F:7E
inet addr:192.168.1.41 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:5eff:fe53:df7e/64 Scope:Link
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 Memory:e3000000-0

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12112 (11.8 KiB) TX bytes:12112 (11.8 KiB)

[root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifdown eth0
[root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:5E:53F:7E
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:5eff:fe53:df7e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:192 (192.0 B)
Interrupt:10 Memory:e3000000-0

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12922 (12.6 KiB) TX bytes:12922 (12.6 KiB)

[root@SilicaMkV ri]#
[root@SilicaMkV ri]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:5E:53F:7E
inet addr:192.168.1.41 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:5eff:fe53:df7e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6263 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12595868 (12.0 MiB) TX bytes:673125 (657.3 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Memory:e3000000-0

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12922 (12.6 KiB) TX bytes:12922 (12.6 KiB)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 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)

[root@SilicaMkV ri]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 eth0
[root@SilicaMkV ri]#

[root@SilicaMkV ri]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 eth0
[root@SilicaMkV ri]#

[root@SilicaMkV ri]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 193.70.152.15
# nameserver 192.168.1.1

# ppp temp entry
[root@SilicaMkV ri]#