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#1 2009-11-24 11:26:09

cesare
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Registered: 2009-08-04
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SIOCSIFFLAGS: cannot assign requested address

Hi everybody,
I have a terrible problem,  I'm going mad to try to fix it. I make the last update of Archlinux x64 of my Sony Vaio VGN-SR21M.
Then my ethernet stops to work. I have a Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E ASF Gigabit, and I'm using wicd as front.end.
Wicd seems set the ethernet card correctly, but when I try to list the connection with ifconfig no eth0 appears.
If I write ifconfig eth0 it shows me the right IP but when I do ifconfig eth0 up it tells me: SIOCSIFFLAGS: CAnnot assign requestes address.
I don't know what to do, is it probably an hardware error?
Should I  load the module by rc.conf called sky2?


Please help me!

thansk a lot

Cesare

Last edited by cesare (2009-11-24 11:27:23)

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#2 2009-11-24 12:42:59

kgas
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Registered: 2008-11-08
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Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: cannot assign requested address

Have you tried this wicd issue?

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#3 2009-11-24 12:52:52

cesare
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Registered: 2009-08-04
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Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: cannot assign requested address

Yes it seems it's not a wicd problem, I fear it would be an hardware problem.
I also boot with a Live CD, last ubuntu version and still same problem.
I don't know what else do hmm

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#4 2009-11-24 15:11:08

majiq
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Registered: 2009-03-06
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Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: cannot assign requested address

Usually I get that error when I stupidly forget to do it as root. Are you sure you have permissions for that? Are you sudoed?

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#5 2009-11-25 07:48:35

cesare
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Registered: 2009-08-04
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Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: cannot assign requested address

Yes I do it as root, to do things faster I start from console not from Kde.
Now I clone my disk and install the original SO MS VISTA sad, just to be sure and to be able to send it back. But when it starts ethernet under Vista works (doh!)
So I dunno how to proceed.
I would like to try to disinstall any modules linked to ethernet, how can I do?

thanks a lot and sorry for my newbie questions  hmm

Last edited by cesare (2009-11-25 07:50:23)

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#6 2009-11-25 09:18:51

panuh
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Registered: 2009-11-24
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Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: cannot assign requested address

I get the same error (with wlan0 though) when the device is turned off by the softkey. Well I guess you don't have one for eth0. If you do, check if the button works properly or has to be set via acpi.

Also check your BIOS-settings on the device. My notebook (hp compaq nc2400) has some kind of "switch between wireless and ethernet" option which causes only one of them to actually work. I haven't really figured it out yet...

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