Some Wired And Wireless Issues

Alrightly, fairly new to Linux but very windows and computer literate so you can imagine my frustration from being unable to figure this out on my own.

Basically, I'm trying to get some form of internet and neither the wired nor wireless connections will work. My wireless connection hangs at 28%. I have tried switching to the iwl drivers, disabling IPv6, etc, all the suggestions and none of them work, maybe recommend me a different network device manager besides knetworkmanager.

Currently my primary concern is the wired network. When plugging in an ethernet cable it doesn't even identify that a cable is plugged in. The NIC and cable work fine under vista so I imagine it is a driver issue and I cannot find any info on it. Neither of the connection lights even light up, so the NIC is basically dead in the water.

lspci comes up with this:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82537L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
subsystem: Gateway 2000 Unknown device 0281
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 218
Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number ee-dc-b0-ff-ff-b8-e0-00

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1000
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 219
Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 9e-42-51-ff-ff-77-1b-00

Any ideas?

edit: Using OpenSuse 10.3, btw

There seems to be a typo either in the lspci output or your transcription. There isn't a NIC model 82537L but there is a 82573L. This is indicated as supported by the e1000 driver and has been since kernel 2.6.16. What happens if you do:

lsmod

Does e1000 appear on the list? If not what happens if you do:

modprobe e1000

Any error messages? Anything log lines in /var/log/messages?

Have you tried autoconfigure NIC in YaST? If that doesn't work, have you tried selecting the e1000 driver manually?

Let us know what debugging info you gather.

There seems to be a typo either in the lspci output or your transcription. There isn't a NIC model 82537L but there is a 82573L. This is indicated as supported by the e1000 driver and has been since kernel 2.6.16. What happens if you do:

lsmod

Does e1000 appear on the list? If not what happens if you do:

modprobe e1000

Any error messages? Anything log lines in /var/log/messages?

Have you tried autoconfigure NIC in YaST? If that doesn't work, have you tried selecting the e1000 driver manually?

Let us know what debugging info you gather.
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Well I don't have access to the machine for a bit here until lunch but I can give you a bit of info.

Yes, it is using the e1000 driver and it is using that driver in the hardware configuration tab. The autoconfigure option in YaST is what it has been using and that has indeed failed. I will modprobe it and check the log for error messages at lunch time.