Ethernet socket not working?

[acampbell]

I don't seem to be able to use the ethernet socket on the side of my Z61M. I have to use an ethernet card to connect to the router. Is something misconfigured>

[Harryc]

Does it show up in device manager?

[acampbell]

This is on Linux. /proc/devices shows a lot of things but I don't know what the ethernet port should look like.

I think it may work, because if I plug in a connection to a router I do get a connection light but nothing seems to be actually happening.

[Harryc]

Mode Edit - Moved to the Linux Forum - Harryc -

Post the results of ifconfig and cat /proc/devices

[acampbell]

ac@ithaca:~$ ifconfig -a
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:ca:5d:9c
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:16

eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:d2:0b:08:78
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:d2ff:fe0b:878/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:142 errors:0 dropped:71 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:126 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5300657 (5.0 MiB) TX bytes:911513 (890.1 KiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x2000 Memory:edf00000-edf00fff

irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 00:00:00:00
NOARP MTU:2048 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:8
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback


inet ac@ithaca:~$ cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
4 /dev/vc/0
4 tty
4 ttyS
5 /dev/tty
5 /dev/console
5 /dev/ptmx
7 vcs
10 misc
13 input
14 sound
29 fb
116 alsa
128 ptm
136 pts
180 usb
189 usb_device
229 hvc
252 pcmcia
253 firewire
254 usb_endpoint

Block devices:
1 ramdisk
3 ide0
7 loop
8 sd
65 sd
66 sd
67 sd
68 sd
69 sd
70 sd
71 sd
128 sd
129 sd
130 sd
131 sd
132 sd
133 sd
134 sd
135 sd
254 device-mapper
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)

[Harryc]

OK, well eth1 is your onboard Ethernet port and it is seen by Linux. What distro are you using, what steps are you doing to configure the ethernet, and where does it fail?

[acampbell]

Thanks -- that's what I was missing. It's connecting now.