Hi, I just installed Elive, and in general, I'm impressed. But neither Iceweasel nor the package manager have internet access. The network configuration panel says that eth0 is active, but it's not acquiring an IP address via DHCP from my router. I have both an Intellinet PCI NIC card, and the onboard ethernet port, if that means anything; but neither give access, other than what is shown above. The internet connection worked when I was running Vector Linux on this same machine, and I have other machines happily connecting through this same hub and router. Is there something else I'm missing? Is there a program on Elive that will give configuration info?
Thanks in advance.
- Michael B. in Cincinnati
As a follow-up, I've tried ifconfig and dhclient to no avail; no connection. I've also tried setting up a static IP address in both my router and through the Elive configuration client (computer icon). It will NOT connect, and the distribution is useless without internet access; I can't update the system, nor add software. It's a shame, because this is a nice system. But I've read lots of entries in the forum and on the bug list about this same problem.
Has the problem with Realtec chip sets been resolved? My NIC card has this chip set.
Thanks for any responses in advance.
Update: I finally traced this to a bad NIC card. I tested it in another machine, and it also was inop there. It was apparently DOA out of the box! I replaced it with an older unit from the other machine, and now things are running fine.
Alex, thanks for your kind help and concern!
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/21/2010 05:20PM by anu.