Wired Problem

[evenso]

So here is 1.) turn off network-manager 2.) check wireless with iwconfig and lan with ifconfig 3.) ping my router 4.) turn on network-manager 5.) check wireless with iwconfig. Interface remains eht0 for lan or wlan. (That seems basically wrong.) No connection on lan.

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# /etc/init.d/network-manager stop 
Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager.
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.452 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:14 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=4/5  Signal level=-59 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:2  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:4c:63:9f:ce  
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:4cff:fe63:9fce/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:973 errors:657 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:6420
          TX packets:836 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1081116 (1.0 MiB)  TX bytes:125582 (122.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000 

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:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:6760 (6.6 KiB)  TX bytes:6760 (6.6 KiB)

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# ping 192.168.2.1
connect: Network is unreachable
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# /etc/init.d/network-manager start
Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager.
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"LOWRIDER"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.24 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:B3:39:7A:5F   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=4/5  Signal level=-62 dBm  Noise level=-90 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:2  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix#

[bassam]

Hi

I ran into this forum searching for a solution for the network problem. I did however found a solution with the help of my friend. The trick lay on finding the driver name.ko they are located on
/lib/modules/2.6.32.6/kernel/drivers/net/

mine was for broadcom 440x the driver name is "b44.ko" so I switched to root

$ su -

and then typed this command
$ modprobe b44

wala ... network initiated and started!

Best of luck for all of you folks