Re: [expert] Internet connection broken, + dmesg output

[Han2097]

The other day I was annoyed to find that ATT @Home cable had changed 
 my
   IP
  address without my knowledge.  I played around in Linuxconf and
DrakProfile
  to change system settings to reflect that.  Next time I booted up, 
my
  internet connection didn't work.  Now whenever I try to make 
 connections
to
  remote sites, I get unknown host.
   
 You are complaining about a static address issue, yet below, you say 
 you
   are
 using DHCP (DYNAMIC Host Configuration Protocol); which is it...?
   
   I'm pretty sure it's static.  But I'm also pretty sure that my IP 
address 
 has
   indeed changed.  Is it possible for static IPs to do that?  This is the 
 first
   time it's changed ever (stayed the same for over a year, since we got 
 cable
   installed).  But I always did need to type DHCPCD -I C428830-A -h home.
 com
   go get the network running when I logged in.  Then I put it in some 
 startup
   script so I didn't need to keep typing it.
  
  DHCP leases an IP address; sounds like you've been getting the same IP 
 address
  every time...  just lucky I guess.  

Ok, here's what I've *heard*:  My cable provider does provide static IPs.  
However, it _says_ they are dynamic to discourage people from running 
servers.  How do people who don't need DHCP connect to the internet from 
Linux, what program/script do they use then?

  Here's what bootup tells me:
 
  network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
  ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
  network: Bringing up interface lo:  succeeded
  ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization.
  network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
   
 Have you checked your NETMASK?
   
   Uhh...What is that?
  
  Usually looks like 255.255.255.0 or somesuch; not important right now 
since 
 you
  have other problems (below)
  
  I don't know why this would be.  I've checked my settings in 
Windows,
   and
it
  appears as if everything is the same in both systems.
 
  Other notes:
  NIC is enabled, to use DHCP.
   
 So changing your IP address should not have been an issue.
   
   I guess not.
   
 give us the output of:
   
ifconfig
   loLink encap:Local Loopback# Is this bad news? :)
 inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
 RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
 TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  
  No, but the lack of an eth0 is...  hmm... I must've forgot to ask for 
dmesg
  output...  that might be useful since the ethernet appears to be missing...

Here's dmesg:

Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3 
19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000
Detected 299290 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 598.02 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62764k/65512k available (1136k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1068k 
data, 128k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 00
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0200, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: chipset revision 32
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x7090-0x7097, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x7098-0x709f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX6.0AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD205BA, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 32X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX6.0AT, 5748MB w/69kB Cache, CHS=732/255/63, (U)DMA
hdb: WDC WD205BA, 19574MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63, (U)DMA
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache

Re: [expert] Internet connection broken

[Han2097]

No, they're not DNS problems.  Using actual IP addresses gives me network 
unreachable.

Dan
ICQ 4689648

 Are you running a firewall that is using your old IP address?  Have you
  tried connecting direct to an IP instead of a URL (dns problems?)
  
  BillK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 The other day I was annoyed to find that ATT @Home cable had changed my IP
 address without my knowledge.  I played around in Linuxconf and DrakProfile
 to change system settings to reflect that.  Next time I booted up, my
 internet connection didn't work.  Now whenever I try to make connections to
 remote sites, I get unknown host.

[expert] Internet connection broken

[Han2097]

The other day I was annoyed to find that ATT @Home cable had changed my IP 
address without my knowledge.  I played around in Linuxconf and DrakProfile 
to change system settings to reflect that.  Next time I booted up, my 
internet connection didn't work.  Now whenever I try to make connections to 
remote sites, I get unknown host.  

Here's what bootup tells me:

network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded 
ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable 
network: Bringing up interface lo:  succeeded 
ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization. 
network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed 

I don't know why this would be.  I've checked my settings in Windows, and it 
appears as if everything is the same in both systems.

Other notes:
NIC is enabled, to use DHCP.
(is it System Control, the thing that shows devices and related info?)- Shows 
NIC to be properly configured
HardDrak shows my card as it is, a Via-Rhine 10/100 PCI card.
I tried running DrakProfile and getting that to set up my card.  It said 
loading drivers for via-rhine card or something similar, then   complained 
that my network card is not properly set up.

Comments:
This is a big pain in the butt.  My system works great asides from this 
annoying lack of connectivity.  I'm not going to make many Linux converts if 
I can't show them a system that works with the internet.  I can also not read 
my POP mail.  I miss KMail.  If you can think of *anything* at all that would 
help, I would appreciate it.   Thanks.

Dan
ICQ 4689648

[expert] Conflicting devices?

[Han2097]

I finally got around to attempting to get my Crystal PnP soundcard working in 
Linux.  Sndconfig almost worked this time (it would not work previously, RPM 
would not let me install it, but it magically did this time).  To get my 
sound to work, I had to change an IRQ in isapnp.conf:

# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
#   IRQ 9.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))  #_This 11 was previously a 10 
 
#   Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0330
# Maximum IO base address 0x0330
# IO base alignment 8 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 2
(IO 0 (BASE 0x330))

I had to do this manually, because sndconfig would not let me choose IRQ 11 
for my card.  After I rebooted, my sound worked.  (Except for olp3, which is 
midi, right?)  But my D-Link DFE-530-TX PCI network card, which is on IRQ 10, 
did not, so I no longer have internet connectivity from within Linux.  
Curiously, during boot the step "Determining IP information for eth0 via 
dhcpcd," which takes about one minute to tell me "FAILED", took only a second 
or so to fail after I made this change to isapnp.conf.Please give me a 
hand with this, I am *so* close to being able to do everything in Linux that 
I 
could under Windows, without crashes :)


Thanks!

Dan R
ICQ 4689648