I'm trying to repair a Alienware Area51-M5700 laptop PC, which was damaged after being dropped. At the moment the hard drive is O/C. I am able to run a number of live distro's from either CD or pendrive including, Knoppix, Ubuntu, pclinuxOS. All desktops function normally but all distro's have the same problem in that I am unable to connect to the internet. At the moment I am trying to do this via a wired connection. There is nothing wrong with the connection, 3 other PC's are able to connect normally using the live CDs on the same wired connection. So the problem is definitely with the PC/network card.
lspci shows both the wireless card and the ethernet controller (Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)). lspci and lsmod indicate the card is recognised and modules/drivers are installed and I am able to ping the card. However, even when I configure the network manually with a fixed IP and set the sub-net mask, broadcast address and destination to what the working PCs were using I am unable to ping the router or any internet location. Invariably I get either a "Destination host unreachable" or "host name lookup failure" errors.
All suggestion greatfully received.
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27-Apr-2008, 05:45
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