[TechRemedy]

Originally Posted by wegoulet

I was just running ubuntu and the settings are you indicate. BTW I typed in that last about ifconfig as I didn't have any way to get it across from ubuntu.

There is one thing that bothers me about the whole thing. All during this (running ubuntu) the ethernet light on the Westell dsl router is dark. Under XP it is lit and Internet access is quite fast. Any ideas?

Oh...is the Westell DSL Router connected to your computer via USB? If so, you will need to find out if it has drivers for Linux.

[wegoulet]

No, the Westell is connected to the NIC via cat5 cable.

[wegoulet]

Here is some more info regarding ifconfig

The first txt file shows ifconfig using ip4

The second file show ifconfig using ip6

There were no changes made. I exited ubuntu, went into XP, then returned to ubuntu

[RootbeaR]

http://forums.techguy.org/unix-linux...s-warning.html

Realtek released an update in June for the 8139 network adaptor, possibly others as well.
After installing, it seemed to lock out Linux no matter what I tried, only solution was to roll back driver.

You may want to try that.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by RootbeaR

http://forums.techguy.org/unix-linux...s-warning.html

Realtek released an update in June for the 8139 network adaptor, possibly others as well.
After installing, it seemed to lock out Linux no matter what I tried, only solution was to roll back driver.

You may want to try that.

Sounds like that update from Realtek flashed some firmware associated with the 8139 network adapter. If what you experienced was at work here, I don't think he would be getting an IP address assigned as his output above demonstrates. I would expect his adapter to either have no IP address assigned or the eth0 interface to not come up, which would probably be mentioned in "dmesg" output (since the interface wouldn't come up at boot time).

Peace...

[tomdkat]

If you run the "route" command, you should see output like this:

tom@deathstar:~$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
tom@deathstar:~$

Note the "default" line at the bottom of the output. Does your "route" command output look similar? Also, in your ifconfig (IPv4) output above, I noticed a 'G' in one of the error counts. I wonder what that is.

Peace...

[wegoulet]

Hi RootbeaR,

I rolled back the driver for the 8139 in XP and reluctantly rebooted in ubuntu. The rollback worked and I was immediately able to access the Internet. Thanks!

[wegoulet]

Edit: Mark this issue as solved

[RootbeaR]

Glad it worked out one way or another.
Someone may want to mention this at the Ubuntu forums.