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cesare

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 26

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)

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: SIOCSIFFLAGS: cannot assign requested address

Have you tried this wicd issue?

cesare

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 26

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

majiq

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 259

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?

cesare

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 26

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 , 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 

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

panuh

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From: X :ɯoɹℲ

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 144

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...