Topic: No Internet Connection

[John Roul]

I install the SMEServer on my server, everything installed fine, detected the network cards just fine, the network cable is positive for a connection, but when I bring it all together and run the test, it won't work, I can't ping the local network or the internet.  I have tried 3 different NIC's all of which I know work.


Please Help

John

[Bill Talcott]

Did you try swapping the cables to each NIC, or using "swapped" mode in the config?

[Looney Tunes]

I've been having a problem with my internal NIC. After upgrading from 5.5 to 5.6, the internal NIC disconnects about once a day. I have to reboot the server to reclaim the conneciton. For the next 24 hours it works fine, then dead to the inside world.

I can still ping from the server to the internet, but no comm inside the local network.

[Knut Sandvik]

I did an upgrade to 5.6 from 5.5 and everything seems to work fine Except that the internet connection that worked fine on 5.5 doesnt work on 5.6. I have tested my SDSL-connection by connecting directly from my laptop and that works.

How can I get my external interface to connect?

Regards
Knut

[Knut Sandvik]

It seems from other posts here that it may be the Intel e100 NIC that dont have a driver in  5.6. Can this be the problem?

[Charlie Brady]

Knut Sandvik wrote:
>
> It seems from other posts here that it may be the Intel e100
> NIC that dont have a driver in  5.6. Can this be the problem?

Intel's driver is included:

/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/addon/e100/e100.o

although it doesn't show up in the console because RedHat don't recommend it for any NICs in their hardware database.

Perhaps the eepro100 driver will work better. Please let us know if it does.

Regards

Charlie

[Looney Toons]

I may have found the problem for "my" situation. Upon upgrading to 5.6, the NIC driver for the internal network was changed.

The driver listed on the SMC web site is the rtl8139 driver (A RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver).  I believe I've found the solution for my problem at http://www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/nic-drivers-howto.html

[Knut Sandvik]

When running the ifconfig comand I discovered that only eth0 was present. Eth1 (external nic) was not listed.
Will the sugestion below solve my problem?

Regards
Knut


When running the ifconfig command i discovered that only eth0 was presentLooney Toons wrote:
>
> I may have found the problem for "my" situation. Upon
> upgrading to 5.6, the NIC driver for the internal network was
> changed.
>
> The driver listed on the SMC web site is the rtl8139 driver
> (A RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver).  I believe
> I've found the solution for my problem at
> http://www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/nic-drivers-howto.html

[Knut Sandvik]

It works now
I logged in to the admin console and set the driver of external nic to my 3COM driver (I think it's a 3Com nic). It seems like the driver of both cards was set to Intel E100.
This worked after a reboot