Cannot Get Back Ethernet Connection

Ted ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Jan 27 18:14:45 UTC 2012


try to manual set networking, i.e.

ifconfig eth0 <ip addy>
route add default gw <ip addy of your gateway>

assuming you are on eth0, else change accordingly.

on that note,

what are your

netstat -rn
and
ifconfig -a

outputs?

-tl

On 01/27/2012 01:04 PM, john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:19:00 -0500
> From: ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> CC: john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Cannot Get Back Ethernet Connection
>
> did you add a pci card or reset or change your bios in mobo at the 
> time this occurred.
> looking at other entries for other HW in lspci -vv may show other 
> differences.
> There is PCI irq mapping at play and the fedora vs. ubuntu kernel are 
> working it differently (i am guessing).
>
> of course if you change pci settings in your bios (i.e. no plug and 
> play,and other pci/irq related settings) you risk nuking your windows
> (i know, as its happened to me once years ago).
>
> you should also look at dmesg of boot time (time frame).
> Maybe just update your ubuntu kernel? or pass in some boot string to 
> manipulate APCH settings.
> But why it started to happen in the first place? i am guessing because 
> of a add/remove pci card or bios change/update?
>
> -tl
>
> I haven't added a pci card nor changed bios settings.
>
> Tracing back my steps, its hard to pinpoint the last thing I did 
> before it stopped working, reason being that I had the system (ubuntu) 
> in sleep mode and the changes I made may not have affected it until I 
> rebooted. I have in fact been making some network changes and the 
> problem appeared a few days after making my changes when the system 
> was rebooted. In fact I rebooted only because the system shut down one 
> day when I tried waking it up. At that boot and every reboot 
> afterward, there was no connection.
>
> What I did was to change the router from my coyote pc to a commercial 
> box so that I could do dhcp. I bought a blu-ray disk player that I 
> could not connect to the internet on static ip, so changed systems. 
> Meanwhile, I kept this one box as static ip. The dhcp was only for the 
> BD player. And I made sure that the dhcp numbering was kept quite 
> apart from the static ip numbers I use.
>
> I got everything working OK, including the ubuntu system I was 
> running. Then, after the system shut down instead of awakening and I 
> could not connect, I started fiddling with dhcp ip's, ended up with ip 
> conflicts and made a mess of it. But I'm fairly certain this mess 
> happened *after* I lost connection in the first place. And I did get 
> fedora and vista connected, so I was able to fix what I messed up. 
> Except I can't fix ubuntu.
>
> I had also installed mediatomb, which I have since removed.
>
> That's the history of it in a nutshell.
>
> I can't update the ubuntu kernel very easily because I have no 
> internet when I'm on ubuntu. I'm not a computer whiz, so upgrading the 
> kernel without using the package system is not something I have the 
> skills to do. If there are no clues on what to do to fix it, I may 
> have to re-install ubuntu. Or maybe try something else.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>
>
> On 01/27/2012 12:07 PM, john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org 
> <mailto:john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>     > From: ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org <mailto:ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>     > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:23:52 -0500
>     > Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Cannot Get Back Ethernet Connection
>     > To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org <mailto:tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
>     >
>     > lspci -vv
>     > i mean.
>     >
>     > -tl
>
>     Here's what came out - all I get out of it is that the irq's are
>     different for ubuntu and fedora.
>
>     UBUNTU:
>     -------------
>     "dmesg eth":
>     <snip>
>     [    0.815136] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet
>     driver. Version 0.64.
>     [    0.815419] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APCH] ->
>     GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
>     [    0.815424] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: setting latency timer to 64
>     [    1.336900] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732
>     @ 13, addr 00:1f:c6:04:ec:f0
>     [    1.336903] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: highdma pwrctl mgmt lnktim
>     msi desc-v3
>     [ 2270.703264] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
>     [ 2281.216026] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
>     "lspci -vv":
>     <snip>
>     00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a66
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
>     ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
>     <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
>         Region 0: Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
>         Kernel modules: forcedeth
>
>     FEDORA:
>     -------------
>     "dmesg eth":
>     <snip>
>     forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
>     forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APCH] -> GSI 22 (level,
>     low) -> IRQ 22
>     forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: setting latency timer to 64
>     forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 13, addr
>     00:1f:c6:04:ec:f0
>     forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: highdma pwrctl mgmt lnktim msi desc-v3
>     forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
>     eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
>
>     "lspci -vv":
>     <snip>
>     00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a66
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
>     ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
>     <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max)
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 25
>         Region 0: Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
>         Kernel modules: forcedeth
>
>     I find it odd that eth0 in fedora ended up with irq 25 rather than
>     22 (from the 2nd line of fedora dmesg), yet in ubuntu eth0 got irq
>     23 (from the 2nd line of ubuntu dmesg) rather than 25.
>
>     Is there a clue somewhere in the above?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     John.
>
>
>     >
>     > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:13 AM, ted leslie
>     <ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> <mailto:ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>     > > Compare lspci -xx on the two linux os.
>     > > -tl
>     > >
>     > > On Jan 27, 2012 10:08 AM, <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
>     <mailto:john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>     > >>
>     > >> Hello everyone;
>     > >>
>     > >> After many years of trouble free ethernet connections, I have
>     now lost it
>     > >> (in more ways than one) and cannot get an IP address on my
>     Ubuntu set up.
>     > >> The condensed version of this story is that it won't connect,
>     regardless of
>     > >> whether I try DHCP or static IP address. Ubuntu just won't
>     give me an IP
>     > >> address.
>     > >>
>     > >> On this same box, I also have Vista and Fedora. I am able to
>     connect with
>     > >> either, both with DHCP and static address configurations.
>     > >>
>     > >> Here's a comparison of "dmesg | grep eth" for both Fedora and
>     Ubuntu.
>     > >>
>     > >> Fedora:
>     > >> <snip>
>     > >> forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
>     > >> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>     > >>
>     > >> Ubuntu:
>     > >> <snip>
>     > >> [  480.187616] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
>     > >> [  490.348024] eth0: no[  480.187616] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0:
>     irq 25 for
>     > >> MSI/MSI-X
>     > >> [  490.348024] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>     > >> [  611.855532] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
>     > >> [  622.492015] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>     > >>
>     > >> I don't like what I see from Ubuntu and I have a feeling that
>     it's not
>     > >> good. However, feelings don't fix things and I don't know
>     where to go to fix
>     > >> it. I've been at this for days...
>     > >>
>     > >> Any help would be appreciated. And I can expand the story if
>     necessary,
>     > >> just thought I'd zero in on the above first.
>     > >>
>     > >> Thanks,
>     > >>
>     > >> John.
>
>

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