Hi Mark, On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:
> I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell Latitude D620. I didn't expect any > issues based on googling this laptop and Linux. However, I cannot get > Ethernet or wifi to work. > > lspci shows the correct hardware > > Ethernet controller; Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigibit > Ethernet PCI Express (rev 2) > Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) > > I went into Network Connections and added a Wired connection and gave it a > name and selected the MAc address for eth0 (in the drop down list), and > selected automatic (DHCP) as the method for iP4 > > I looked at /etc/network/interfaces > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > so I tried adding > > auto eth0 > > but no luck. grep -i eth /var/log/syslog gives > > Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver:'tg3' > ifindex: 2) > Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): exported as > /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 > Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): mow managed > Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): device state change: unmanaged -> > unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 2 0 2] > Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): bringing up device > Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): preparing device > Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason > 'managed') [2] > kernel: [1815.448547] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready > kernel: [1815.449321] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready > > I looked at some forum posts on how to fix this, and the best I found was > to edit NetworkManager.conf and set managed=true (it came false out of the > box). That did not help. > > Thanks for any other suggestions you may have! > > Mark > > It appears to be trying to use a tg3 driver - which is the ethernet. Follow these instructions to setup the /etc/network/interfaces networking for Network Manager: https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/serverguide/network-configuration.html Example for /etc/network/interfaces: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up /sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full Manual test (non-persistent): # sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 For your wireless: Please show us the output of: nm-tool lsmod | grep b43 sudo iwlist scan sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep -e b43 -e firmware -e wpa -e wlan -e etork | tail -n55 $ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer $ sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source -- (503) 754-4452 Android (623) 239-3392 Skype (623) 688-3392 Google Voice ** <http://it-clowns.com>Safeway.com Automation Engineer
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