No more network

[Snowhog]

Re: No more network

Fredh@

Review Detonate's post on Howto: Ethernet connection without a GUI. This will at least confirm or deny that you can actually get a working Internet connection.

[Fredh]

Re: No more network

Thank you snowhog:

my etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

I will refer to detonates how-to as soon as I have finished the latest jaunty build.

@conholster Thank you I'll do that as soon as I have finished downloading

[Fredh]

Re: No more network

Thank you all for the effort.

Nothing helped so I decided to do a reinstall from the kubuntu nightly / daily JJ alt cd.

I got to the apt-manager configuration and was asked to give the mirror server for the installation.

No idea and aborted.

haven't seen that either in Linux. Oh well. Maybe the new kernel doesn't like my ethernet card

For what it is worth lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 645xx (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 14)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax Modem
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
fred3@fredws2:~$

dmesg|grep eth

Can't do that because Jaunty is gone for the moment

[Fredh]

Re: No more network

Is there anyway to upgrade from II to JJ alpha3?

I couldn't find anything in the forums or google

[caryb]

Re: No more network

I upgraded from II to JJa3 by editing my source list.

from konsole

sudo cp /etc/apt/source.list /etc/apt/source.back

(this backs up your source file)

sudo nano /etc/apt/source.list

(editing the file)
replace all entries that say intrepid with jaunty i.e.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe
with
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
then type ctrl +o (this saves the file)then ctrl + x (this exits)
then

apt-get update

(This updates the source file)
then

apt-get dist-upgrade

(this command does the distribution upgrade)
Then drink some coffee or 2 while it upgrades

Sorry If this is patronizing it was not my intention but unsure of your skill level & I get pinged with obscure help myself

[conholster]

Re: No more network

the driver for your card is sis900 try

sudo modprobe sis900

then

sudo ifup eth0

then try pinging some server. Also check dmesg after loading the driver for any error messages.