[PLUG] Gutsy upgrade on HP tx1000 internet issue

[Michael M. Moore]

On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 07:42 -0800, kurt braget wrote:
> I'm not really familiar with network terminology. I'm trying to learn. Here
> is the ifconfig output from the machine I'm on now, a laptop with openSUSE
> 10.3.I've never really had an issue like this, that' probably the main
> reason I'm not familiar. The HP tx1000 has Vista on it and it find the
> internet fine. openSUSE on an old toshiba (output below) find both ethernet
> and wireless. I'm not trying to do anything complicated, just want internet.
> I think the same subnet is fine.
> 
> #################################
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:35:12:C4:84
>           inet addr:192.168.1.102  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::20e:35ff:fe12:c484/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:2719 errors:0 dropped:12 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:2032 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:3629602 (3.4 Mb)  TX bytes:626029 (611.3 Kb)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 Memory:cffff000-cfffffff
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:7B:A5:33:09
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:820 (820.0 b)  TX bytes:820 (820.0 b)
> 
> 
> On Nov 16, 2007 10:35 PM, Nick Aubert <nickaubert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > $ ifconfig
> > > eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:24:2A:1E:C5
> > >          inet addr:169.254.5.51  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
> >
> > What kind of network are you trying to put this host on?  That
> > 169.254.x.x IP address is in the local link address range, used by
> > Zeroconf devices.  Are your other hosts in this same IP range?


Is there a reason you need avahi?  In the past I have read no end of
complaints about how avahi (and zeroconf before it) screws with users'
abilities to connect to the Internet.  Personally, I avoid it like the
plague, but obviously someone somewhere has uses for it or it wouldn't
exist.  Maybe you need it for something.

If not, the first thing I would do is shutdown and disable the
avahi-daemon.  That alone might fix things.

Second thing I would do is disable IPv6, but that's just because it has
caused me huge problems with Debian and Ubuntu.  In other distros I've
tried (and on OS X), IPv6 wasn't a problem, so I wouldn't necessarily
take it as a given that because your openSUSE installation has IPv6
enabled, that couldn't be part of the problem you're having with Ubuntu.


-- 
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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