Re: E1000 nic fails; used to work
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 4:24 pm, Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > I've got a fairly new Dell GX260 with an integrated gigabit nic. I
> > started out with 2.2.20 (stable), but that didn't recognize the nic,
> > so I used Knoppix to download a newer kernel (2.4.18, and all the
> > attendent dependencies), and after adding "e1000" to /etc/modules, the
> > network started working for me! Yea! I then promptly upgraded to
> > unstable.
> >
> > That worked for several weeks, until my office mate returned to work,
> > and booted into Windows (dual-boot, obviously). Now when I boot into
> > Debian, dhcp doesn't find any address, and when I manually run
> > "/etc/init.d/networking start" I get errors like "recieve_packet
> > failed on eth0" and "network is down". The network works fine from
> > Windows, as this email is proof.
> >
> > I tried another kernel upgrade, this time to 2.4.18-4-686,
>
> I meant "2.4.21-4-686".
>
> > but the network responds the same. I figured I'd try a static address,
> > to see what that results in. Here's my interfaces file, and the results.
> >
> > westk[@garciajo]:/home/westk> cat /etc/network/interfaces
> > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
> >
> > # The loopback interface
> > auto lo eth0
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> > #iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
> > iface eth0 inet static
> > address 150.252.161.230
> > netmask 255.255.248.0
> >
> >
> >
> > westk[@garciajo]:/etc/network> sudo /etc/init.d/networking start
> > Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
> > Configuring network interfaces... done.
> > e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Half Duplex
> >
> > Mon Aug 25 16:52:39
> > ---------
> > westk[@garciajo]:/etc/network> ping 150.252.128.193
> > PING 150.252.128.193 (150.252.128.193): 56 data bytes
> > ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
> > ping: wrote 150.252.128.193 64 chars, ret=-1
> > ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
> > ping: wrote 150.252.128.193 64 chars, ret=-1
> >
> >
> >
> > Any clues would be appreciated.
>
> Some further testing revealed that I can ping the gateway, so I added
> that to my /etc/network/interfaces file, and now I can ping by address.
>
> Then I tinked with /etc/resolv.conf, and now I can ping by name.
>
> I still can't get a dhcp address though. When I looked in dselect at
> dhcp-client and at pump, both are not installed. Yet the errors
> mentioned above are prefaced with DHCP_DISCOVER or something similar,
> which would indicate to me that I have some dhcp client installed (and I
> used to have one, as it used to work).
>
> Has one of my upgrades deleted my dhcp client? If so, which client
> should I install: dhcp-client or pump or something else?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Kent
hi
try dhcpcd. I use it at home to look up my IP address from my router but I
can't remember how I set it up.
pete
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