> Apologies if I missed someone already asking these: No problem! Thanks to try to help me.
> 1. are the lights on or flashing with a cable plugged in and pinging > something valid? No. They are stable > 2. can you ping yourself (both 127.0.0.1 and the nic IP) - cable plugged > in They work both (127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.20 my desktop IP) > 3. do you have IP tables installed - "iptables -vnL" and check you have > not firewalled yourself off from the world somehow. Not iptables installed. > 4. set up a ping and check "dmesg" and terminal 12 (<ctrl-alt-F12>) for > anything meaningful. ping to my laptop which works (192.168.0.22) fails. In dmesg (very very long!) I didn't find anything I could understand but this: [ 11.002756] sky2 0000:02:00.0: eth0: enabling interface [ 11.003194] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 11.113427] Adding 2048280k swap on /dev/sdb2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2048280k [ 14.025657] sky2 0000:02:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx [ 14.026096] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [ 24.386040] eth0: no IPv6 routers present With ctrl+alt+F12 i canread this (interesting?) Bureau ntpd_intres[3301] host name not found: 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (3 other lines like this with number 2, 3, 4) > 5. as an outside chance, run "modinfo [eth_module]" - get the right > module name from "lsmod" in lsmod I don't have a module eth_module
