Re: Strange problems with USB ethernet card

[Gregory Richards]

Hmmm
Well that me realize that if I ifconfig while pinging shows the interface as 
up, I have an IP . . . if I do it while the interface is down, I have no IP. 
 Maybe it's the DHCP server?  I'm going to try using static IP and see if 
that works . . . .

- Gregory Richards


> From: fazio.laurent@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: akaquinn@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Strange problems with USB ethernet card
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:26:14 +0100
>
> comments inline...
>
> akaquinn@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote (on 9 Jan 2004 at 01:53):
> > I'm running Mandake GNU/Linux 9.2, and have a D-Link USB-H3ETX USB 
> network
> > card.  It uses the pegasus module.  For some reason, my network 
> connection
> > goes up and down.  It never did under Windows.
> >
> > As you can see, it goes up and down erradically.  Here's my ifconfig:
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:BA:8A:94:54
>
> Here, if you compare with the loopback interface,
> you can see that the *inet* and *Mask* field are
> missing...
>
> I think you've forgotten to give a IP address to the
> network interface:
>
> $ ifconfig eth0 <ip_address_of_the_interface>
>
> It should solve your problem.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:24779 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:20370 errors:14390 dropped:0 overruns:0 
> carrier:14390
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> >           RX bytes:5505240 (5.2 Mb)  TX bytes:2342698 (2.2 Mb)
> >
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:24987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:24987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >           RX bytes:1766076 (1.6 Mb)  TX bytes:1766076 (1.6 Mb)
> >
> >
> > I've been googling for info, but I'm not really sure what keywords to 
> look
> > for, and haven't found anything.  Does anybody have any words of wisdom 
> to
> > keep my network up?
> >
> > If you need more info, what should I include?
> >
> > BTW, this is with no network activity whatsoever.  I don't think that it
> > goes up or down any more irregularly, however, whether there is net 
> activity
> > or not.
> >
> > - Gregory Richards

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