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eth0 not running at startup

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• Started 12 years ago by frank4360
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   frank4360
   

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   I am running SliTaz on a 10 year old Acer Aspire with less than 192 mb RAM.

   On boot-up the eth0 interface is not connected - usually after lots of fiddling it mysteriously (to me) comes up, but I would like to find out how to connect properly.

   The output from lspci -nn | grep -i eth is
   00:12.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] [1106:3065] (rev 74)

   If I look on the SliTaz Control Box, Netbox Manager shows eth0 as connected.

   If I click on the Network Connection icon, Connection Properties shows Name as blank (only the loopback shows in the dropdown list); and Status shows "error".

   All ideas gratefully accepted - at present the link hasn't come up even with the fiddling I have been doing!

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   rerivero
   

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   Try this:

   #/etc/init.d/network.sh start

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   frank4360
   

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   Hello rerivero

   I ran /etc/init.d/network.sh start as root.

   The response was `wlan0 is not a wifi interface, changing it
   Configuring...ifconfig: up: error fetching interface information: Device not found

   lo no wireless extensions

   eth0 no wireless extensions

   dummy0 no wireless extensions

   iwconfig: unknown command "any"
   Starting udhcpc client on: ...
   udhcpc: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device`

   The eth0 network did not come up - at least the network icon at the screen bottom right still showed the "No entry" sign (round red with a white bar across it). However, I was able to access the internet with the browser - to ensure that it was not serving from cache I picked up random sites I had never been to before!

   Connection Properties box showed eth0 sending/receiving, and the "No entry" sign has just disappeared from the network icon.

   All seems very odd.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   rerivero
   

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   Ok ..
   first as root do
   #ifconfig eth0 down

   then see the following file
   #nano /etc/network.conf
   and having these parameters ..
   INTERFACE = "eth0" (if eth0 is not correct)
   save, exit and run

   #ifconfig eth0 up
   and then run

   #/etc/init.d/network.sh start

   and see if the connection works ...

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   frank4360
   

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   Thanks rerivero

   Because of a few other problems I have re-installed SliTaz from a cd; the ethernet connection now works at boot-up.

   I presume I caused a problem when I was experimenting with the first installation; one possibility was my attempts to get wireless working - I have a USB WiFi connection (or rather, non-connection) and I may have screwed something up trying to get it to work.

   There now remain three main problems:-

   1. the wireless connection - the USB WiFi is made by the French company Sagem, reference XG-703A. The only drivers I have found so far are for Windows.

   2. Dropbox doesn't install from the Tazpkg manager, nor from the command line using the commands givzn on the Dropbox site. In each case an error message says the url is neither HTTP or FTP.

   3. I would like to improve the definition of the screen - so far I haven't even started looking at this so it is not really important.

   If you have any ideas, please let me know.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   lfever
   

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   I too am unable to get a working eth0 connection at startup,

   Doing this:

   /etc/init.d/network.sh start

   gives this:

   Configuring eth1... [ OK ]
   Starting udhcpc client on: eth1...
   udhcpc (v1.18.4) started
   Sending discover...
   Sending discover...
   Sending discover...
   No lease, forking to background

   Then I did:

   ifconfig eth0 down

   Then:

   nano /etc/network.conf

   Gives:

   INTERFACE="eth0"

   Then:

   ifconfig eth0 up

   At this point the network status indicator shows eth0 connected but I cannot access the Internet. Continuing on with:

   /etc/init.d/network.sh start

   Gives:

   Configuring eth1... [ OK ]
   Starting udhcpc client on: eth1...
   udhcpc (v1.18.4) started
   Sending discover...
   Sending discover...
   Sending discover...
   No lease, forking to background

   The network status indicator shows that eth0 is not connected and cannot connect to the Internet.

   The only way I can get a working eth0 connection is to select Start under the DHCP tab in Netbox Manager

   Why is eth0 not auto connecting on boot?

   I would appreciate any help with this matter :)
   Thanks

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   @lfever
   If you have 2 network adapters physically remove or disable one of them in motherboard bios.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   lfever
   

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   Hi mojo
   I only have one ethernet adapter, however the wifi card shows as an ethernet connection.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   lfever
   

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   @mojo
   I disabled the wifi connection at boot and eth0 auto connects :)
   Thanks mojo!

   Posted 12 years ago #

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