eth1 not working. HW or Fedora?

Martín Marqués martin.marques at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 17:22:26 UTC 2013


OK, just tested something:

Plugged the ethernet cable, ethernet device came up (ifconfig shows
it, but with no IP address) so I dhclient it and the IP comes up and
eth1 is now connected and configured.

So the problem is with NM not doing it's work. Any ideas?

2013/3/26 Martín Marqués <martin.marques at gmail.com>:
> 2013/3/26 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>:
>> Martín Marqués writes:
>>
>>> I have a network interface on my laptop which was working (don't know
>>> when it stopped cause I mainly use WIFI) and now fails to connect. I
>>> have NM for network and when I plug the UTP cable (doesn't matter
>>> where I do this, it's always the same) I get this on
>>> /var/log/messages:
>>
>>
>>> Mar 25 15:41:57 xxx kernel: [   22.403016] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0:
>>> eth1: no link during initialization
>>
>>
>> Some googling around suggests that you might have some luck by:
>>
>> 1) Plugging into a different port on your router, or
>> 2) Trying a different cable.
>>
>> Both ends of a CAT cable are not really "identical", and that's why most
>> routers have a single "upstream" or "uplink" ports, where some pins are
>> switcherooed. Adding to the confusion is that some CAT cables might be
>> crossover, rather than straight through. I also have the impression that
>> most hardware, at least GigE, might not really care, and autonegotiate who
>> is what, with its peer, when they connect to each other.
>>
>> Try plugging the cable into your hub/router's "uplink" or "upstream" port,
>> if it's not connected to anything.
>
> Nop, nothing. Connection doesn't come up, not even at connections
> where I used to connect without any trouble (tried at home, at work
> and at College)
>
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