No Network, new mobo

[RayBe]

hi,

got myself a brand new mobo, gigabyte  GA-770TA-UD3 (onboard nic Realtek 8111D), i installed a second nic (wich worked fine with a prior setup of LinuxMCE)
now i can't get any of the 2 to work,
also made a new network from settingsmenu, no luck

i haven't installed LMCE yet, just installed the kubuntu desktop,
if i install LMCE (without the kubuntu update) will the correct driver be installed automatic?

also installed kubuntu 10.04 and then the onboard nic seemed to work ok

i read at http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/User:Chrysemys that a kernel-update should be performed, must i do so?
are there any risks?

anybody a idea?

thanks,
br
Raymond

[purps]

And it doesn't work in the LMCE Kubuntu desktop, prior to LMCE's installation? But does in a standalone Kubuntu install?

[RayBe]

yep,
in kubuntu 10.04 it worked, no problem, but in the 8.10 LinuxMCE Kubuntu desktop (prior to LMCE install) it doesn't.
meanwhile i read somewhere that if u install lmce, the driver gets updated, but this way i cannot update the kubuntu install like the wiki says. would this be a problem?

br
Raymond

[purps]

I've never heard of that one, sounds strange.

If your second NIC worked before with LMCE, then why not use that as your internet connection, and give the installation a go? In any event, I would be tempted to just give it a go and see what happens.

Or get hold of a standalone copy of Kubuntu 8.10, see if that works (if it does, you could do an "internet install". Could it possibly be a problem with the installation disk? Are you using an an old DVD, or is the latest snapshot, or what?

[RayBe]

thanks for ur responce,

none of my nic's work, thats the strange part.
still i think i have to install lmce and that lmce will install the right drivers, this would explain why the second pci nic worked.
i am using a snapshot from july.
i have time to try further in a couple of day's, will give feedback.

any suggestions are welkom

thanks
br

Raymond

[tkmedia]

Some of the realtek nics have issues with 0810 kubuntu
I have had similar problem with an 811 I was able to get nic working with a kernel upgrade .. but that has its own set of issues.
With the price of nics you may want to add a 2nd nic  and disable the onboard one.



HTH


Tim

[craasch]

I had a similar if not the same issue over the weekend, no nics were found.

I had one nic in old box.

New MB nic didn't work, added old smc tulip based nic, didn't work.

Explanation:
every time a new nic is detected it adds a new entry in the file listed below, it is based on the hardware MAC.  Since it was a MB replacement the old nic was still defined as eth0, so the new nic was listed as eth1, and the tulip showed up as eth2...

Solution:
comment out or remove the old eth0 entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, make sure you edit the other entries for the different cards to re-assign them as eth0, eth1... as appropriate.  After a reboot all was well for me.

Hope this helps
-Chris