Wired Internet connection [Solved]

[dunsurfin]

I've just had a look at my three machines. 2 have a firmware version given but one doesn't and it works OK so I assume it's not a necessity.

[onyx]

Yeh, no need for firmware version to be reported.
My results:

# ethtool -i eth0
driver: r8169
version: 2.3LK-NAPI
firmware-version:
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0

The Ubu-nutters are having fun with your laptop trying to get Wifi working http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1707814, but seem to have no issue with Ethernet.

What do you have as a kernel? It would appear most of these hassles stop with version 2.6.38.
uname -r (in the terminal will tell you)

If that is not your version, then I highly suggest downloading the Sabayon daily ISO of your choice, so you get 2.6.38 baked in. I am using the AMD64 KDE daily of a week ago, and it is sweet

[orange_angel]

I have the latest kernel, but now I also have a wireless router here, so I'm once again able to use the Internet in Sabayon. The wired connection is still useless. Thanks for all the help, it will be nice to have a router here so that more than one computer can be connected to the Internet, so at least some good has come of this.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I haven't read through this thread, but have you tried reducing the MTU? On one of my machines (an Acer SA90 tower) I have to reduce the MTU to 1492 in order to enable SL to access the Internet via the wired Ethernet connection. On another of my machines (an old Gateway solo 9300 laptop) I have to reduce the MTU to 1464 in order to enable SL to access the Internet via the wireless connection.

If pinging is working on your wired connection, you can find out the correct MTU using the following method:

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# ping -M do -s packet_size_in_bytes www.cisco.com

e.g.

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# ping -M do -s 1472 www.cisco.com

I just vary the packet size in the ping command until “Frag needed and DF set” is not displayed.

You can reduce the MTU to e.g. 1492 as follows:

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# ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492

The MTU is the maximum packet size in bytes that does not fragment + 28 bytes. So, for example, if you were to find that:

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# ping -M do -s 1464 http://www.cisco.com

does not cause fragmented packets, but:

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# ping -M do -s 1466 http://www.cisco.com

does cause fragmented packets, then the MTU would be 1464 + 28 = 1492.

[orange_angel]

That actually worked! Thanks so much Fitzcarraldo.

[Fitzcarraldo]

You're welcome. If you want to run that ifconfig command automatically every time you boot your machine, you can put it in the file /etc/conf.d/local. However, if you have openrc-0.8.0 or later installed then instead create the file /etc/local.d/ifconfig.start and put the ifconfig command in that file instead, and make ifconfig.start executable (see /etc/conf.d/local is gone [Solved], as version 0.8.0 of OpenRC has changed the way the local initscript runs user-specified commands at start up). An alternative way of achieving the same thing would be to add the line mtu_eth0=”1492″ (replace the 1492 with whatever your MTU is) to the file /etc/conf.d/net instead.