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Frank Schafer wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this |
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>weekend. |
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>Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection. |
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>The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' |
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>there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading, finding the card |
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>and bringing the link up. |
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>The lights on the NIC are both (continous) lighting. If I do an |
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>``ifconfig eth0 down'' followed by an ``ifconfig eth0 up`` the lights |
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>turn both off for about one second and then both on again. |
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Did you assign an address when you did "ifconfig eth0 up"? Or does your |
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network use DHCP, and if so, did you run dhcpcd/dhclient to get an address? |
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The output of "ifconfig -a", "route -n", and "cat /etc/conf.d/net" might |
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give us some more clues. |
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-Richard |
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