[SOLVED]No Int Connect

[Pita]

I had to get a new 2nd hand MOBO and cannot connect now to the Internet in my
VL6 box.

ifconfig eth0 up
gives following error: "Error while getting interface flags: no such device"

output of lspci:
/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interfa
ce (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #
1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #
2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #
3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:05.1 Modem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. SmartLAN56 56K Modem
heisspf@~:$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:05.1 Modem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. SmartLAN56 56K Modem

Now if I boot into VL7-alpha-2 I do have Internet connection.

Which files then should I copy over from VL7 to VL6 to get connction there again?

Thankful for answer!

[bigpaws]

There are two modules that can drive that card. There are times that
the wrong one gets used.

Check /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf


Output from lsmod may help.

Bigpaws

[Pita]

I had to get yet another brand new second hand MOBO since the first one
did not seem to be compatible with my software. Yet still I cannot connect
anymore to the Internet in my VL6 box and get this error:

ifconfig eth0 up
"Error while getting interface flags: no such device"

lspci is now
 /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation Device 1683
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
00:03.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1563 HyperTransport South Bridge (rev 20)
00:03.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 03)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c5)
00:0e.1 Ethernet controller: ALi Corporation M5261 Ethernet Controller (rev 30)
00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:0f.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

lsmod w/o snd module for my VL6
fuse                   38148  1
nfsd                   53532  1
lockd                  40004  1 nfsd
sunrpc                109848  8 nfsd,lockd
e1000                  69152  0
i915                  164436  0
drm_kms_helper         15984  1 i915
i2c_algo_bit            2928  1 i915
video                  12388  1 i915
output                   716  1 video
drm                    93200  2 i915,drm_kms_helper
p4_clockmod             1908  0
speedstep_lib           1912  1 p4_clockmod
freq_table              1220  1 p4_clockmod
ns558                   1324  0
gameport                4532  2 ns558
usblp                   6836  0
parport_pc             22084  0
parport                17852  1 parport_pc
thermal                 7744  0
processor              18708  0
button                  2816  1 i915
floppy                 37364  0
evdev                   4856  0
i2c_ali1535             3488  0
uli526x                 8952  0
i2c_ali1563             3796  0
i2c_ali15x3             3716  0
i2c_core                9172  7 i915,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,drm,i2c_ali1535,i2c_ali1563,i2c_al
ali_agp                 2368  1
sg                     14816  0

lsmod for VL7 w/o snd modules where I have Internet connection
Module                  Size  Used by
p4_clockmod             1908  0
speedstep_lib           1912  1 p4_clockmod
freq_table              1220  1 p4_clockmod
ppdev                   3688  0
parport_pc             22084  0
parport                17852  2 ppdev,parport_pc
8139too                12600  0
usblp                   6836  0
ns558                   1324  0
floppy                 37364  0
processor              18708  0
gameport                4532  2 ns558
evdev                   4856  5
mii                     2236  1 8139too
i2c_i801                5628  0
i2c_core                9172  1 i2c_i801
thermal                 7744  0
button                  2816  0
sg                     14816  0

Both VL6 and VL7 run an same kernel 2.6.33.4

[hata_ph]

Try run modprobe 9138too or uli526x in your VL6...

[Pita]

Try run modprobe 9138too or uli526x in your VL6...

It's 8139 . Well it will not insmod. Error: -1 Unknown symbol in module.

Now in VL7 this module is not loaded any more and trying to insmod I get
the same error.

Here I have the end of strace output from "ifconfig eth0 up" both for VL6 and VL7.

VL6
.../...
access("/proc/net/appletalk", R_OK)     = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/proc/net/x25", R_OK)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="eth0", ??}) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
write(2, "eth0: ERROR while getting interf"..., 58eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
) = 58
exit_group(-1)                          = ?
Process 1154 detached

VL7
.../...
access("/proc/net/ipx", R_OK)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/proc/net/appletalk", R_OK)     = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/proc/net/x25", R_OK)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="eth0",ifr_flags=IFF_UP|IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_MULTICAST}) = 0
ioctl(4, SIOCSIFFLAGS, 0xbff37f4c)      = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?

So it looks that in VL6 ifr_name cannot find eth0.
What could have been broken in my VL6 box with this MOBO change?

I just finished about building my VL6 box after the HD failure I hope it can be
avoided that I have to do it again.

[hata_ph]

I run modprobe 8139too in my vl6-light and the modules is loaded. It is running kernel 2.6.27.12.

[Pita]

I made it!

I was able to insert 8139too using modprobe instead of insmod, however,
still got the same error: no such device with eth0.

So I tried on a hunch "ifconfig eth1 up" and there was no error message. Changed in
rc.inet1 to eth1, then "rc.inet1 start" and I was finally again connected in my
wonderful, ultimate Linux VL6 box. What a relief. The day became suddenly
much brighter in spite of heavy cloud cover.

Does anybody want to give a possible explanation, why now eth1 instead of eth0?

[hata_ph]

This always happen when I change a new NIC on my already running linux system...