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Offline Ariya

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Can't connect to the Internet (solved!)
« on: April 26, 2011, 03:51:26 AM »
Can't connect to the Internet.
I have inet, Bcast and mask, but TC won't connect to the Internet.
What am I doing wrong? Need help!

Thanks!

TC 3.5
Acer Aspire 4741G laptop, I3-330, NVidia Geforece 310M
« Last Edit: April 26, 2011, 10:57:46 PM by Ariya »

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2011, 06:47:34 AM »
wired or wireless? which wired/wireless hardware?

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2011, 07:00:33 AM »
wired

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2011, 07:03:58 AM »
wired hardware?

Could you post the results of:
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$ lsmod
$ dmesg | tail -30

Offline Ariya

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2011, 07:25:08 AM »
Do you want from the TC's Live CD or from Fedora 15 beta I am using to communicate?

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2011, 07:39:22 AM »
the tc live CD

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2011, 07:52:57 AM »
lsmod
vfat      5596   0
fat      30220   1 vfat
squashfs   14728   0
Scsi_wait_scan   276   0
ramzswap   10240   1
battery      6028   0
ac      1696   0
video      12712   0
tg3      84024   0
backlight   1632   1 video
loop      8068   0
output      724   1 video
wmi      3656   0
libphy      8596   1 tg3

dmesg | tail -30
I have to go back to Live CD, but there is lot to write down. There is no way to copy and paste. My wired card is Broadcom ,and wireless is Ath9k

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2011, 08:09:28 AM »
To copy and paste highlight the text and click middle mouse button to paste. If you don't hVe 3 buttons click left and right buttons at  the same time

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2011, 09:03:42 AM »
Mouse doesn't work that way and even if I copy, nowhere to paste it as I can't get to Internet.

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2011, 09:10:15 AM »
You paste to a file, copy to a thumb drive, and send it from the computer you are typing on.

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2011, 10:19:04 AM »
Can you tell me how to use ifconfig to connect using eth0?

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2011, 10:24:44 AM »
when I write
ifconfig eth0 up
the reply is no such device

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2011, 10:26:54 AM »
Please do a forum search, there are troubleshooting guides for such.
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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2011, 10:29:50 AM »
I went through 32 pages, but couldn't find any

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Re: Can't connect to the Internet
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2011, 10:38:29 AM »
http://linux4tw.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/tips-acer-5740-laptop/

sudo modprobe -r tg3
sudo modprobe broadcom
sudo modprobe tg3
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