Re: [solved] Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-11-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 11. 2010 19:13:02 je Rodolfo Medina napisal(a): A few weeks ago I started the present thread. The messages from this list seemed to conclude that it was a hardware problem and no remedy to make it work. Then I bought a new usb ethernet port and upgraded the kernel to linux-imag

[solved] Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-11-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be > dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking > Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such dev

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 23 oct 10, 14:46:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > > > On Sb, 23 oct 10, 11:48:59, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> > >> `modprobe sis900' gets no output at all; the output of `ifconfig -a' is the > >> one I sent in the file `ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. > > > > Hmm, no output u

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Sb, 23 oct 10, 11:48:59, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> `modprobe sis900' gets no output at all; the output of `ifconfig -a' is the >> one I sent in the file `ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. > > Hmm, no output usually means no error. Anything new showing in dmesg? Here it is

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 23 oct 10, 11:48:59, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > `modprobe sis900' gets no output at all; the output of `ifconfig -a' is the > one > I sent in the file `ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. Hmm, no output usually means no error. Anything new showing in dmesg? > > As a sidenote, you might want to upgr

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Vi, 22 oct 10, 14:58:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> I'm attaching the file ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz, that you can unpack with >> `tar xzvf ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. It's only 12Kb. There are all those >> outputs: >> >> dmesg >> ifconfig -a >> uname -a >> modprobe s

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 22 oct 10, 14:58:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > I'm attaching the file ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz, that you can unpack with `tar > xzvf ethernet-enquiry.tar.gz'. It's only 12Kb. There are all those outputs: > > dmesg > ifconfig -a > uname -a > modprobe sis990 > lspci -nnk > > for the two di

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu writes: >> > @Rodolfo, could you please post the output of 'lspci -nnk', preferably >> > only the part relevant to the SiS Ethernet controler. On Mi, 20 oct 10, 13:11:38, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> For Etch, the `k' option is not valid: so I used Knoppix. >> >> To be sure, I po

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 20 oct 10, 13:11:38, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > > > @Rodolfo, could you please post the output of 'lspci -nnk', preferably > > only the part relevant to the SiS Ethernet controler. > > > For Etch, the `k' option is not valid: so I used Knoppix. > > To be sure, I

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu writes: > @Rodolfo, could you please post the output of 'lspci -nnk', preferably > only the part relevant to the SiS Ethernet controler. For Etch, the `k' option is not valid: so I used Knoppix. To be sure, I posted the whole output of 'lspci -nnk' to: http://paste.debian.ne

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 19 oct 10, 09:56:28, Camaleón wrote: > > @Andrei, could it be related to this old bug? > > ip1394 not needed and causing trouble > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=238979 I'd say not, that bug looks more like a naming issue, but blacklisting that module is worth a try any

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-19 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:23:02 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > Here's your network card. Very interesting that it didn't show up in the grep... are you aware of any differences (for example booting with a different kernel)? Could you please let us s

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu writes: >>> Here's your network card. Very interesting that it didn't show up in >>> the grep... are you aware of any differences (for example booting with >>> a different kernel)? >>> >>> Could you please let us see the full output of 'dmesg'. If you are >>> worried about the si

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 18 oct 10, 21:29:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > It seems that I don't manage to use that page. Then I'm attaching dmesg. The file is empty as well. Try: dmesg > dmesg.txt and then attach the file dmesg.txt Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http:

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:35:37 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> On Lu, 18 oct 10, 14:06:08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Here it is the output of `lspci': 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) >> >

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:35:37 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Lu, 18 oct 10, 14:06:08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> Here it is the output of `lspci': >>> >>> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 >>> PCI Fast Ethernet >>> (rev 91) > > > Andrei Popescu writes: >

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Lu, 18 oct 10, 14:06:08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Here it is the output of `lspci': >> >> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03) >> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202 >> 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:05:20 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> As root: "dmidecode -t 2" > > > Here it the output of "dmidecode -t 2": > > # dmidecode 2.8 > SMBIOS 2.3 present. > > Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes > Base Board Information > Manufacturer: Uniwill >

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 18 oct 10, 14:06:08, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:56:08 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> Camaleón writes: > > > >>> Please, type "lspci" and put here the output, just to be sure. > >> > >> > >> I had already posted it: > >> > >> # lspci | gr

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Greg Madden writes: > One thing to be absolutely sure about is that the device is on a hardware > compatibility list (hcl) or has positive Linux reviews.. I don't use such > devices but in my experience, a device needs to be shown to work reliably > with a kernel version, by more than one person,

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:56:08 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > >>> Please, type "lspci" and put here the output, just to be sure. >> >> >> I had already posted it: >> >> # lspci | grep -i ethernet >> eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-hos

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:46:07 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> What is the brand and model of your motherboard? >> >> >> I don't know... How can I work that out? > > As root: "dmidecode -t 2" Here it the output of "dmidecode -t 2": # dmidecode 2.8 SMBIOS 2.3 present. Ha

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 17. 10. 2010 19:39:05 je Greg Madden napisal(a): Time spent on compatibility is far shorter than time trying to get some device with a unknown chipset working. Or money spent on replacing it with a working one ... +1 -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://buf

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 17 October 2010 01:40:44 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Greg Madden writes: > > On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output: > >> > > >> > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:57:46 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> As root: "dmidecode -t 2" > > > All right, I'll post it as soon as I get home. > > Do you think there are hopes the ethernet device can be saved? While the system cannot detect it, there is no chance :-( If it

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:56:08 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> Please, type "lspci" and put here the output, just to be sure. > > > I had already posted it: > > # lspci | grep -i ethernet > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) Yep, but do not "grep" it,

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:46:07 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> What is the brand and model of your motherboard? >> >> >> I don't know... How can I work that out? > > As root: "dmidecode -t 2" All right, I'll post it as soon as I get home. Do you think there are hopes the

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:47:22 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> , so eth0 has always been a firewire device. But the device I'm using >> as an ethernet port is eth1, which now is not detected by the command >> ifconfig, nor dmesg, nor lspci. > > Please, type "lspci" and put her

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:47:22 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > , so eth0 has always been a firewire device. But the device I'm using > as an ethernet port is eth1, which now is not detected by the command > ifconfig, nor dmesg, nor lspci. Please, type "lspci" and put here the output, just to be sur

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:46:07 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> What is the brand and model of your motherboard? > > > I don't know... How can I work that out? As root: "dmidecode -t 2" Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: >>> But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter (firewire >>> to ethernet)? :-? > It's like Rodolfo's ethernet device got messed in some way and the system > now detects his ethernet connection as Firewire. Well, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> The file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules is the following: >> >> # Firewire device 00030d53255c8616 (ohci1394) SUBSYSTEM=="net", >> DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:03:0d:53:25:5c:86:16", NAME="eth0" >> >> # PCI device 0x1

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:25:40 -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 + (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: > >> But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter (firewire >> to ethernet)? :-? > > the 1394 standard says that a computer which supports 1394 must also > sup

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter (firewire >> to ethernet)? :-? > > > I can't answer to this question. . The file > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules is the following: > > #

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Greg Madden writes: > On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> writes: >> > "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output: >> > >> > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) >> > >> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 +

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <> wrote: [...] Had any electrical storms? Switches that have been acting up? New carpeting? Power outages? Brownouts? Etc? Sounds like the device is busted, frankly. -- Morgan Gangwere PGP Key at http://indrora.homelinux.org/gpg_key.asc BOFH

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> writes: > > "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output: > > > > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) > > > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 + (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: >

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> writes: > "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output: > > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 + (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: > >> But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter >> (fire

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be > dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking > Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such de

OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 + (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: > But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter > (firewire to ethernet)? :-? the 1394 standard says that a computer which supports 1394 must also support "1394 networking". Short end of it, if you need to move some data b

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 16. 10. 2010 18:15:12 je Camaleón napisal(a): > With Knoppix 6.0, I ran `ifconfig -a' and got the following output: > > loLink encap:Local Loopback > LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX > packets:0 error

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:41:05 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (...) > Umarzuki Mochlis writes: > >> you could try using any live cd (e.g. debian live cd) to see if it is >> the software/hardware that are problematic > > > > Camaleón writes: > >> (please, open a new thread if you change the themat

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be > dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking > Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such dev

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:15:06 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (please, open a new thread if you change the thematic of the e-mail) > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to > be dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking > Configuring

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
you could try using any live cd (e.g. debian live cd) to see if it is the software/hardware that are problematic 2010/10/16 Rodolfo Medina > The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be > dead. At boot, I get the following message: > > Setting up networking >

Ethernet port dead

2010-10-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
The ethernet port of my Hyundai laptop, that used to work fine, seems to be dead. At boot, I get the following message: Setting up networking Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device e