My current Mythboxen is now to be intergrated into my embryonic wired network. That'll be a broadband router (with firewall) connected to an intelligent switch that will presently haver a few frontends added.
My windows box is also on this network with a view to SSHing in... as it makes copying files over a doddle etc...

Unfortunately switching back to wires has not gone smoothly.

Things I have done:
1. Turned on the onboard network adapter in the BIOS.
2. Removed the wireless network card.
3. Modified my /etc/network/interfaces file to this:



Tried to start the network conncetion manually and failed. Rebooted several times to see if that worked. It didn't.
On reboot I get a message saying the ethernet connection cannot be brought up or some such nonesense (- unfortunately I've an evening of TV to record so can't check right now) then it tries to search for a dhcp offer. This fails and the network goes to sleep.

What have I missed?

Oh btw I've tried this version of the /etc/network/interface too


This didn't work either.

ifconfig appears to recognise the onboard NIC as eth0.

Thanks for any advice.

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Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

Does what?

netcardconfig --force does nothing. Well, not quite: It tries to search for a DHCP connections but fails. I get this message back:



Darn.

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

Take a look at the dhcp config file

do you get a link light on the network adapter and/or switch?

Hi,
I'm not sure I get a link light on the mobo but I can't check now, as I'm out of town for a few days. But I'll be back Friday and will look at this. I'll have a look at the dhcp config file, but I don't think it's this. On boot up I get a message about eth0 not being ready.
Regards

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

Some motherboards have 2 NICs, I've had trouble with that before. Just make sure the right one is plugged in.

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Only a single NIC

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

Since R5F26 is out I thought I would upgrade mostly to see if this fixed my NIC issues. It didn't.

I'm now working on the proviso that the onboard NIC has gone bad. I had a rummage in a parts box and found a pci ethernet 10/100 card. I plugged this into my boxen and turned the onboard NIC off in the BIOS.

The DHCP search failed on the reboot, so I tried manually. This too failed.
So I reinstalled KnoppMyth onto a spare harddrive I had lying around (- so to preserve what I've already got recorded etc.)

I now get a link light at both ends which is a step in the right direction, but still no network. I know the cable is good. I've switched the socket on the router the cable is plugged into. I'm pretty sure the plugin NIC card is good.

Suggestions anyone?

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

Do you have a DHCP server on your network? Such as a router (make sure DHCP is enabled and configured)...

I have a Netgear router with firewall and wireless. So yes, or it should be. But I'll double check.

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

All seems good on the router front. It is definitely set to accept dhcp from internal connections.

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

* - Does the NIC work if you set it to a static IP/netmask?

* - Is the router configured to only provide DHCP info to certain MAC addresses? Is it using WPA/WEP/etc.?

This certainly seems like a router/DHCP server misconfiguration, or perhaps you need to use wpa_supplicant or the like to provide authentication details to your router.

Well I had WPA turned on when I was using wireless, it's now turned off. Though I wouldn't have thought that'd make a difference.
Now that I'm back on wires and turned the wireless broadcast off.
I had limited the available address that the router would assign to four.
At the moment there is only my windows machine and the mythbox supposed to be on the network. I've increased the available addresses to be assigned so that shouldn't come into it. I've also released and renewed my connection.
The router is a netgear wgt624 v3

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Version:R8
Intel C2D 7400, Nvidia 5600 via HDMI to Samsung B37B650TW (PAL), Asus P5QL-E mobo, 4Gb PC6400 DDR2 ram, Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gb & 1Tb drive, Nova-HD-S2 (x2)

Sorry, I was thinking wireless.

Limited by MAC address as well? (This may be strictly a functionality within the wireless portion, or may not exist on your router at all)