wicd connects to eth1 but no actual internet

[mimosa]

While I'm in Rio I'm using my brother in law's computer, and (I hope) Salix 13.37 Live.

I needed to tell wicd to use eth1 not eth0, then it connects happily. But no actual internet traffic arrives - I cannot open any url.

I can just use Windows (as we speak ... ) but it would be nice to get it working. I can't post output easily (though I can put it in a file somewhere and then access from Windows if needed) or search for solutions online from within Salix.

A quick search just now revealed a mass of information I haven't yet managed to narrow down sufficiently to be useful.

To sum up, having to use Windows for a week won't kill me, but if anyone does have any suggestions I'd be grateful!

[djemos]

as root type in a terminal the commands to see the output

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ifconfig

to check eth1

type

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route

to see the IP routing table.

type

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ps ax | grep dhcpcd

to check if dhcpcd is running

type

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cat /etc/resolv.conf

to check if there are dns servers

for example If your net is of type 192.168.1.254 or 192.168.0.1 etc in file /etc/resolv.conf have to exist the line nameserver 192.168.1.254 or nameserver 192.168.0.1
and route output have to be something like

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default         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    303    0        0 eth1
loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0     0       lo
localnet        *               255.255.255.0   U     303    0        0 eth1

[mimosa]

Thanks Djemos. I just gave up in the end, swallowed my pride, and used Windows! Poking around, it looked like there was pppoe underneath the connection somehow, with a password I didn't know.

[sqlpython]

A simple solution may be to check your /etc/network/interfaces file and edit it to reflect an eth1....
Then activate as root with a

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su
ifconfig eth1 up

Of course I am presupposing that your Hardware and it's module and recognizing the NIC controller at eth1.

Here is mine..

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

[sqlpython]

Ummmm.. One other Item..
I recently had problems getting the WICD to recognize a USB Wifi Netgear dongle..
Showed up in
ifconfig
&
iwconfig
&
iwlist
......Module loaded but WICD would not see it....
Solution.......
Quit/Stop/Kill the WICD process.. (Check the processes to be sure it is off )
Shutdown Computer...(Not Reboot)
Turn on the Computer and Login..
WICD will restart and seemingly recheck all interfaces in a more through sequence then when left in Panel...
..( I know I rebooted my machine 352 times with WICD missing the Interface each time.

Upon WICD re establishing all interfaces it finally noticed my additional Hardware..

[mimosa]

Thanks Sqlpython! Next time I'm staying at my brother in law's in Rio, I'll try that too.

[comet]

I'm new to Salix but know Slackware very well.

There appears to be a bug in the wicd default setting for ethernet, it is set to "eth1".

My ethernet card is eth0 and wicd did not find it.

To fix this I started wicd and "preferences" page.

Under "wired interface" I changed the "eth1" to "eth0" and saved it.

This fixed my problem.

The default for the wicd wired interface should be "eth0".