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entropic_existence

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Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 14

Can't configure network card

Hi folks,

I'm currently installing Arch linux on a PC at the lab where I work, after previously installing it on my own laptop and loving it. However, I can't seem to get the ethernet card up and working. I've followed the Guide as well as looked through several posts here on the forums to no avail. Couldn't find much of anything on this particular card when googling either but perhaps my Google-Fu has merely failed me. So, now I'm hoping someone here can help.

Everytime I try and get a DHCP lease it times out and fails. Here's the relevant output of several commands:

hwdetect --net:

MODULES=(slhc de2104x)

lsmod:

de2104x                     20224           0
slhc                              5760           1         ppp_generic

lspci:

Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21)

ifconfig -a:

eth0         Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:0F:F9:A3
               inet addr:169.254.19.188 Bcast: 169.254.255.255 Mask: 255.255.0.0
               UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
               RX packets: 15419 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
               TX packets: 443 errors:0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
               collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 1000
               RX bytes: 1855621 (1.7 Mb)        TX bytes: 106806 (104.3 Kb)
               Interrupt: 16 Base address: 0x4000

dmesg | grep eth0:

eth0: 21041 at 0xf8814000, 00:e0:29:0f:f9:a3, IRQ 16
eth0: enabling interface
eth0: set link 10baseT auto
eth0:         mode 0x7ffc0040, sia 0x10c4,0xffffef01,0xffffffff,0xffff0008
eth0:         set mode 0x7ffc0040, set sia oxef01,0xffff,0x8
eth0: link up, media 10baseT auto

hope that helps.

Thanks guys!

entropic_existence

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Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 14

Re: Can't configure network card

As an update I have also tried using dhclient as well. when I run dhclient eth0 nothing happens. No output, warnings, errors, or information of any kind is printed out to the screen.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Can't configure network card

Try it manually, and use dhcpcd's debug option for more output:

ifconfig eth0 up
dhcpcd -d eth0

Do you have other machines using dhcp successfully?

entropic_existence

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Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 14

Re: Can't configure network card

I do have other machines using dhcp successfully. With the debug output it is basically what I expected. Shows that it is starting, then that it is broadcasting for a lease.

Several rounds of sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x668ac5cb

Finally Error, eth0: timed out

It then checks an old lease on /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info, adds that IP address and then finds no dns information to write.