Hardy - No network connectivity on fresh install

[brent saner]

It seems that on fresh installs (in this test-case context, a eeePC), a DHCP lease is not pulled. This is with a daily-build from yesterday.
If a DHCP lease is managed to be pulled, DNS fails to resolve shortly thereafter.

Will include output of lspci and lsmod when I am able to.

Please advise to any additional info needed.

[frederyk (frederyk)]

try to just shutdown at disconnect the power cable and the battery for some seconds, next time it works. I think so. ;) good luck

[ACE Tech (support-acetechgroup)]

Confirming bug. Suspected cause of failure is dnsmasq.

[LeFrog1310 (dominic-leleu)]

This isn't working ...
I just bought the eeepc 1000h, installed ubuntu 8.04.1 dvd version.
I am total newbie for linux and i want to give it a go.

I did as I was told : shutdown at disconnect the power cable and the battery for some seconds....but same story.

I there another solution ?

[brent saner (brent-saner)]

LeFrog1310 wrote:
> This isn't working ...
> I just bought the eeepc 1000h, installed ubuntu 8.04.1 dvd version.

First off, the DVD version is a bit of a messy thing if i recall correctly.
Secondly, the eeePC 100x series have entirely different hardware, so
this is a different bug.

If i were you, i'd burn the alternate cd and try that.

[Bill Loucks (biloucks)]

Indeed it is extremely important to specify WHICH Eee PC model you have; apparently there are huge differences in hardware across the many Eee models.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 on an Eee PC 1000H, and I've fixed the nonfunctioning Atheros Attansic wired ethernet controller by following the instructions here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770173&page=2

[Leo Milano (lmilano)]

Me too. My eeepc 701 4G used to have a perfectly working ethernet port with the original Xandros. Later on, I upgraded the bios to version 0901, and I started running Kubuntu 8.04 from a flash usb drive. I am not sure which of these two affected the ethernet connection, but it no longer works in Xandros, and it doesn't work in Kubuntu, either.

The network manager is not pulling a DHCP lease, as noted above, but no error message is shown. Atl2 is loaded, according to lsmod, and the ethernet card is listed as eth2 in KNetworkManager

Removing the battery and power helped me get Kubuntu see the card (there were times when it wouldn't even show in the network manager).

I am not sure what's the best way to debug this. Any ideas, welcome. Maybe I should look at /var/log/messages ...

[[e-mail] (legzelda)]

I can confirm this on my Eee 901 20G after a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.

[sadfub (sadfub)]

I confirm this on my Eee 900A 8G after fresh install of Kubuntu 8.04, but the workaround (shutdown and remove battery) doesn't worked. "ifconfig -a" doesn't show any ethernet devices.

[Louis (louisxu1007)]

confirmed,had a Eee 900 16G after fresh install of Unbuntu 8.04,wired connection doesn't work, but after workaround(shutdown and remove battery) it works.

[Sasha Gerrand (sgerrand)]

I can confirm this also occurs on the Eee PC 1000H - fresh install of Ubuntu 8.01.1 and no ethernet/wireless device was detected.

[tonio59 (antonio-francino-bluebottle)]

Ethernet doesn't work either with Ubuntu 8.04 after installation on hard disk partition on top of Windows. EeePC 1000H. Shutdown-remove battery does not help.

[tonio59 (antonio-francino-bluebottle)]

Hi, good news.
I tryed beta version of Xubuntu 8.10 with my Asus EeePC 1000H.
I have just tryed it from CD (not installed, since I want to keep a partition for Win$$$ and want to take a close look), and my LAN (wired) internet connection works just out of the box.

Good news, hope to see all working, Wifi and everythiing.
Stay tuned !

[adari (rakka-kokoro)]

Hi hi,

Just installed eeebuntu standard 1.0 on an eeepc 1000, which is ubuntu 8.04. ifconfig -a shows my card, and I attempted turning off and unplugging everything including battery, but no luck, it doesn't acknowledge any connection at all, not even through ethernet cord... when going to network settings, all i get is "point to point connection" and it says is not configured. Any ideas?

[adari (rakka-kokoro)]

sorry to post again, after testing iwconfig, it shows nothing installed.

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Reassigning to the linux package. This has nothing to do with dnsmasq which is a dhcp and dns *server*.

[brent saner (brent-saner)]

Dnsmasq has had versions which have been known to refuse leases to certain clients based on their dhclient (if it's an older dnsmasq version, not sure on exact version number).

Check dnsmasq's bugs.

If anything, this might be a dhclient bug.

I'm well aware of what dnsmasq is, though. Many home routers (linksys wrt54g's, etc.) use dnsmasq, if I'm not mistaken.

I'm not sure the "linux" package is an appropriate assigning.

------Original Message------
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Subject: [Bug 219662] Re: Hardy - No network connectivity on fresh install

Reassigning to the linux package. This has nothing to do with dnsmasq
which is a dhcp and dns *server*.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: dnsmasq => linux

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[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi brent-saner,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 219662

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

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[Jeffrey Ratcliffe (jeffreyratcliffe)]

I had this problem with a fresh install on a eee pc 1000ha. The following thread got wired networking going for me:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1219931

The compilation was against the 2.6.28.11 kernel that was on the image. I was able to do an update, which then installed the .15 kernel, which didn't require the fix, so I assume that this bug was fixed somewhere between .11 and .15.

[Hal KIng (hcking)]

xubuntu/lubuntu 10.04 on CD using Eee PC 1001P no wireless network

Still trying variations

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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