ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Done a fresh installation on a brand new Acer Veriton M265
It came with Linpus installed ( Gnome ) and I want to turn it into a virtualbox host with slackware13.1 64 Problem: The realtek card (eth0) doesn't work like I would like it to work. I briefly tested the factory Linpus installation, and everything worked. Installed Slackware, and no network. Looks like its a Realtek 8169(?) ( Gigabit lan ) onboard card, that needs a special treatment? I did find some Ubuntu users fixing Realtek cards not giving a link after a dualboot with Windows, (Wake-On-Lan driver/function in windows sets eth-card into some kind of state that Linux can't get it out of. BUT: I haven't had a dualboot (or Windows) on the machine (ever). The postings I did find where all 'old': 2008-ish.. I would think the bleeding edge 13.1 ( :P ) slackware would run like a charm on this fairly new, but not bleeding edge hardware. (Pentium E5400, 2Gb ram, 160Gb hdd. PS: Will either run VirtualBox to host a W2K environment, or VMware player with XP Pro. W2K is good enough, but for remote desktopwork I will need VirualBox PUEL version, where VMware player doesn't support this (does it?) so for remote desktop I'll need XP Pro, I guess. |
Code:
su -c "lspci | grep -i ether" Code:
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Code:
fskmh@fskmh:~> /sbin/lsmod | grep r8169 Code:
fskmh@fskmh:~> /usr/sbin/ethtool -i eth0 |
lspci | grep -i ether:
Code:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) /sbin/lsmod | grep r8169 Code:
r8169 36193 0 Code:
/usr/sbin/ethtool -i eth0 |
Further investigation:
dmesg | grep eth0 Code:
eth0: TRL8168d/8111d at ( adress etc etc IRQ 26 ) |
*ARGH*
SOLVED! Murphy's law. Still can't figure out why it did work out of the box with Linpus, but it was the freak'n CABLE! Got 4 wall plugs, 4 pc's, switched cables over and voila: works! The pc that got the cable from the slackbox went off-line instantly, so must be either the cable or the wall plug. Everybody thank you for lurking and please whipe off that grin: hardware failure where you least expect it :) |
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