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Arch Linux has always worked for me more or less out of the box. With this problem, however, it seems I have run into a dead end. I am trying to configure a Lenovo ThinkPad SL400 to connect to the internet. Neither the wired nor the wireless cards work and it's driving me insane. They are identified correctly and the drivers seem to work, but dhcpcd times out. I compiled the ISC dhcp 3.1 on it and tested it with dhclient to see if that would work but I get the same result.
According to the lspci output my:
- ethernet card is a Realtek Semiconductor Co. RTL8111/8168B Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
- wireless card is an Atheros Communications AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter
I read somewhere that the r8169 driver is broken or doesn't work with 2.6.25, so I thought I could try configuring the wireless card, but I get the same result:
debug, ath0: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x62a32d11
...
err, ath0: timed out
info, ath0: trying to use old lease in '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-ath0.info'
[then sends the ARP probes]
... with eth0 it's the same thing.
I don't have any Windows installed and the LED light is on, so there's no WOL problem with the ethernet card. Should I try to compile the new kernel and replace the old one? Could there be a problem between the router, running dd-wrt, and the laptop?
Last edited by cdrlist (2008-12-07 06:10:04)
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Do you have the right firmware? This seems like a complete firmware problem.
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Have you tried letting dhcpcd run for a few minutes? On my laptop, depending on the network I connect to, dhcpcd regularly times out and gives me the IPv4LL address initially. I then check a few times using ifconfig, and eventually after a minute, or a few minutes, I get an IP address. This is on a wired connection.
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I did let dhcpcd run for longer without any result.
A Xubuntu Live CD with a 2.6.24 kernel can load the wired connection properly. It uses NetworkManager, dhcdbd and dhclient to do it. It also uses the r8169 driver. This tells me that configuring the wired connection on Arch is feasible, but how to do it remains beyond my expertise.
EDIT:
The FTP install version of Arch 2008.03 with 2.6.24 connects to the internet. I guess it really is the Linux kernel 2.6.25 that breaks the r8169 driver. Problem solved.
Last edited by cdrlist (2008-12-07 06:04:58)
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