help, no eth0

[daikon]

Hi,

I'm new to knoppix and linux, please be gentle :)

using a new knoppix 6.2 live cd, i don't have any wired internet connection.

ifconfig shows no eth0

using live cds from other distros finds the connection no problem. what's the story?
any ideas?

thanks in advance
matt

[klaus2008]

Hi,

I never had this problem. Perhaps it's a driver issue.

What network interface card do you use?

What do you see, when you open a terminal and enter
dmesg | grep eth

You could boot another linux live cd with a working wired network an try to find out which driver is used. Then you could look if this one is available on the Knoppix cd.

You could try the latest Knoppix 6.2.1.

[daikon]

Thanks a lot for your reply.

here's the output of dmesg | grep eth using a linux mint live cd:

mint@mint ~ $ dmesg | grep eth
[ 1.865859] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type met
[ 1.865871] Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type met
[ 3.060804] eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0f:
[ 67.534548] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 70.816190] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 70.816194] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
[ 70.816293] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 81.492013] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 151.592243] b44: eth0: powering down PHY
[ 151.980645] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 154.816170] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 154.816174] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
[ 154.816265] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 165.512023] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[34938.880750] b44: eth0: powering down PHY
[34939.462715] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[34943.000162] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[34943.000167] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
[34943.000253] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[34953.960022] eth0: no IPv6 routers present


I'm a novice, but it sounds not quite perfect? Anyway, it works.

From Knoppix I got:

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ dmesg | grep eth
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ dmesg | grep eth
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$

Mysterious.

I'll see if I can find a driver on the CD...
I'm using Knoppix 6.2.1

Many thanks for your help
Matt