No LAN (wired) Connection with BT2.0 Final

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I've recently downloaded BT2.0 Final (Having previously used BT 1.0 and 2.0 Beta), however, so far I have had no luck in getting my wired LAN interface to work.

Using BT 1.0, and 2.0 Beta, entering:
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0
# ifconfig eth0 up

has allowed me to successfully:
# ping 192.168.0.1

As one would expect.

Doing the same with BT 2.0 Final gives the following message when attempting the ping:
# ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.0.5 icmp_seq=n Destination Host Unreachable
.
.
.
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
7 Packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time 6016ms, pipe 3

The results are identical to if there is no Ethernet cable attached, but there is, and the link is know to be working, because it works fine under BT 2.0 Beta.

This same error occurs whether I am using the HDD Installation or the Live CD.

Also, the other computer (In this case IP Address of 192.168.0.1) can not ping or make any other connection to the laptop running BT 2.0 Final, and WireShark running on 192.168.0.1 detects no packets from 192.168.0.5 (BT) and detects the ARP Requests from itself, but no ARP Replies from BT 2.0

ifconfig confirms that the interface is indeed up, and configured with the right IP Address / Subnet Mask, and shows the correct MAC Address, so it is not a matter of the NIC not being detected.

I am able to successfully ping the local interface ie:
#ping 192.168.0.5


I have talked with a couple of the IT teachers at TAFE (Educational Institution), but they have no idea what is going on.

Does anyone here have any idea what the problem might be???

(I will do my best to provide any other information people might need)

Some new Info I just got:
Have just run BT 2.0 Final (Live CD) on a TAFE computer, and successfully configured eth0 interface and pinged.

NIC on my laptop (Which I can't get to work) is a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigibit (rev 03) Ethernet card.

(Is it possible that this card isn't properly supported by BT 2.0 Final, whereas it was in 1.0 and Beta?)

Darmok / Necromanicide

[danmiddle2]

can you post up some info like

"ifconfig -a" output and maybe "dmesg" output

then might be able tp help.

[Necromanicide]

have been playing around for the last 5 hours, and am now pretty convinced my problem is an IRQ conflict.

I noticed a message about "Disabling IRQ #10" during booting, further investigation revealed I have Sound, Monitor, and Ethernet Controller all opperating on IRQ #10.

A bit of searching led me to the "irqpoll" boot option, which seems to of solved what I thought was a totally different problem (No sound in BT 2.0 Final), that I didn't really care about. Thought it might of resolved the Ethernet problem too, but no such luck

Will try and get the ifconfig -a & relevent dmesg output for you.

Darmok / Necromanicide

[Richard Naggin]

I can't get mine to connect either

[Necromanicide]

ifconfig -a (relevent info):
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:10:25:2F
inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10

<eth1 and lo cut>

cat /var/interrupts

CPU0
0: 439803 XT-PIC-XT timer
1: 905 XT-PIC-XT i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC-XT rtc
10: 93033 XT-PIC-XT Intel ICH6, uhci_hcd:usb4, eth0
11: 2510 XT-PIC-XT uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, ehci_hcd:usb5, tifm_7xx1, yenta, ohci1394, ipw2200
12: 9370 XT-PIC-XT i8042
14: 5677 XT-PIC-XT ide0
NMI: 0
ERR: 1

lspci -v (Relevent Info)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0066
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]


00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0066
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1880 [size=64]
Memory at c8000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at c8000400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0066
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at c8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c8120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-


06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0066
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at c8200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-

Will work on dmesg output (Long and contains too many "smilies"

Darmok / Necromanicide

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Here is the dmesg output - Part I

I was going to cut out irrelevant information, but what I think is irrelevant may be important to someone else, so will include it in its entirety, in two parts.

#dmesg
behind transparent bridge #06 (-#07) (try 'pci=assign-busses')
Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 3000-3fff
MEM window: c8100000-c81fffff
PREFETCH window: d0000000-d7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.1
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:06:01.0
IO window: 00004000-000040ff
IO window: 00004400-000044ff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-33ffffff
MEM window: 34000000-37ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: 4000-4fff
MEM window: c8200000-c82fffff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-33ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 170k freed
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/O].
JFS: nTxBlock = 3993, nTxLock = 31949
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0: pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0: pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0: pcie02]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1: pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1: pcie02]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2: pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2: pcie02]
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0a80000, using 6144k, total 16384k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:ae68
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00caef6, set palette = c00caf36
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 87540 bytes,<6>...found (1024x768, 87432 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 107x34
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0)
HP CISS Driver (v 3.6.14)
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH6: chipset revision 4
ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x18c0-0x18c7, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST960821A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-840S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-5[2423]-mh3)
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
qlogicfas: no cards were found, please specify I/O address and IRQ using iobase= and irq= options<6>QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.1.11
Copyright(c) 2004-2006 Emulex. All rights reserved.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
DC390: clustering now enabled by default. If you get problems load
with "disable_clustering=1" and report to maintainers
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.7 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 00:01:03 EST 2006)
megaraid: 2.20.4.9 (Release Date: Sun Jul 16 12:27:22 EST 2006)
megasas: 00.00.03.05 Mon Oct 02 11:21:32 PDT 2006
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.05
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.002.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.008.
nsp32: loading...
st: Version 20061107, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
I2O subsystem v1.325
i2o: max drivers = 8
I2O Configuration OSM v1.323
I2O Bus Adapter OSM v1.317
I2O Block Device OSM v1.325
I2O SCSI Peripheral OSM v1.316
I2O ProcFS OSM v1.316
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.03
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.03
Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.04.03
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.03
usbmon: debugfs is not available
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
raid6: int32x1 623 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 791 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 535 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 495 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 1902 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 2201 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 1382 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 2305 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1 2538 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 2765 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (2765 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 4631.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (4631.000 MB/sec)
md: multipath personality registered for level -4
md: faulty personality registered for level -5
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
device-mapper: multipath emc: version 0.0.3 loaded
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.

Darmok / Necromanicide

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dmesg output - Part II

RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed
Adding 2096472k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2096472k
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.2 to 64
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.01 (11-Nov-2006)
iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH6-M TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1060)
iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54148 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
tg3.c:v3.72 (January 8, 2007)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0x00001800
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95705A50) rev 3003 PHY(5705)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet 00:16:36:10:25:2f
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[0] TSOcap[1]
eth0: dma_rwctrl[763f0000] dma_mask[32-bit]
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmpr
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x00001820
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001840
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 10, io base 0x00001860
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, io mem 0xc8000000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
agpgart: Detected an Intel 915GM Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:06:01.0 [1025:0066]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:06:01.0, mfunc 0x01c21b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x02f8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#06) from #07 to #08
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x4000 - 0x4fff
cs: IO port probe 0x4000-0x4fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xc8200000 - 0xc82fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x33ffffff
usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[c8217000-c82177ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
usbcore: registered new interface driver hci_usb
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
fuse init (API version 7.8)
Capability LSM initialized
input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input3
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset c (was ffdf0000, writing 0)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset b (was 3ed173b, writing 661025)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 3 (was 0, writing 2008)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 2 (was 2000000, writing 2000003)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 1 (was 2b00000, writing 2b00006)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 0 (was 3ed173b, writing 169c14e4)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset b (was 3ed173b, writing 661025)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 3 (was 0, writing 2008)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 2 (was 2000000, writing 2000003)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 1 (was 2b00000, writing 2b00006)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 0 (was 3ed173b, writing 169c14e4)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset b (was 3ed173b, writing 661025)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 3 (was 0, writing 2008)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 2 (was 2000000, writing 2000003)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 1 (was 2b00000, writing 2b00006)
PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:06:08.0 at offset 0 (was 3ed173b, writing 169c14e4)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode

--- End dmesg output ---

Could someone more experienced possibly even let me know if they think my guess that an IRQ Conflict is the cause of my problems is a possibility?

Darmok / Necromanicide

[Necromanicide]

Having spent a week and a half playing with different boot options, including apic=off, noapic, nolapic, irqpoll, acpi=off, and others, (As I'm using an Acer TravelMate, which it seems are notorious for APIC problems), I've finally solved my problem with my Ethernet connection, and will put it here for any others that have had the same problem (I notice at least one other has had the same thing happening).

The boot option "pnpbios=off" is all that seems to of been required.

And not only does it resolve my Ethernet problem, it also seems to of fixed a number of problems which I knew about (But didn't worry me), and some I didn't even know about.

Using the pnpbios=off:
- Ethernet connection works perfectly.
- Sound works
- Kismet loads correctly
- I now have my battery power monitor working
- The laptop now fully powers off when I use the #poweroff command (Previously the system fully halted, but I still had to press the power button to turn it off).

And there could even be other things that work properly now that I haven't yet discovered.

This fix works with either the LiveCD ==> Boot: bt pnpbios=off
And for Hard Disk Install by adding line ==> append ="pnpbios=off" to /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo to install the change.

Hope this works for any others having the same problem.

Darmok / Necromanicide

[imported_seven]

thats a cool fix.
for those of you who have the intel NIC, a quick fix would be to do this

echo "modrobe e100" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local

now the module is loaded. Now if you wanna switch you can do...

ifconfig eth1 up