I have been posting on the forum some time about problems getting a wireless card to work on my laptop and I was advise to download some support files which would be needed with a wireless card. I have not been able to download these files so I have tried to get a wired ethernet to work with this laptop so that I can download these files, but I cannot get the wired ethernet to work either. I am running Antix 8.5. The ethernet card eth0 is listed if I do an ip but or ifconfig, but am struggling to know how to get the ethernet to work.

I am a newbie to the world of Linux so some basic help will be appreciated so that I can this lappie working.

I do not want to have to go back to windows.

Thanks

Gary

Hi Gary. Ethernet hard line connection has always been painless for me in AntiX whether using PCMCIA Ethernet Carbus on really ancient dial up only laptop or newer built in Ethernet jack on Laptop or Desktop.

Since I am not familiar with your computer. Can you post a link to your wireless thread also.

Usually Control Center>Network>Wicd connects up my Hardline from the get go.

Not sure why You are having any trouble. Is modem using dhcp?

Also, please post the output of

inxi -F (type it in a terminal)

to see if Antix sees your card and which card it is.

thanks.

This the link for my other problem, wireless PCMCIA not working.

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2968

The inxi dump is as follows:-

beth@antiX1:~$ su
Password:
root@antiX1:/home/beth# inxi -F
System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-486 Marek Edelman 11 April 2010
CPU: Single core Mobile AMD Sempron 2600+ (UP) cache 128 KB flags (nx sse sse2) bmips 1604.58 clocked at 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card VIA K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] tty res: 125x40 Gfx Data: N/A for root user
Audio: Card VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller driver VIA 82xx Audio at port 1400 BusID: 00:11.5
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too v: 0.9.28 at port 1000 BusID: 00:08.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 60.0GB (2.7% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD600UE 60.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 54G used: 1.6G (4%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 2.18GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 78 Uptime 3 min Memory 50.7/184.4MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.9
root@antiX1:/home/beth# ^C
root@antiX1:/home/beth#


Thanks for the help.

Hope you can sort something out for me.

Gary

The good news is that Antix detects the card. Did you try ceni? wicd? Neither one worked to configure your network?

You could try this in a terminal, as root:

ifdown eth0
ifup eth0

Good luck!

Pedro

the expansion card ethernet will be fine. you won't notice a difference. In some circumstances it could actually be faster, depending on the age of the machine. Just make sure they send you the same kind of port (10/100 or gigabit) that you are replacing.