Cannot connect to wired or wireless network F14

[PrestoNP]

Hi, F14 did not recognize my wired or wireless NIC upon installation. I have enabled network manager, what should I do from here? Here is my hardware specifications:

Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8176 (rev 01)
Ethernet controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)

Please, I would greatly appreciate some help, I want to move on from windows but I am almost ready to give up on linux due to these pesky annoyances.

-Preston

[marko]

1)
About the JMC250 (wired ethernet), there was a thread about it and the OP was fixed by updating his bios... probably not your problem too

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=258574

but basically the driver to use should be in Fedora 14 and it's called "jme" (showing the modinfo for
the jme.ko module):

modinfo jme

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.38.1-6.fc14.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/jme.ko
version: 1.0.7
license: GPL
description: JMicron JMC2x0 PCI Express Ethernet driver
author: Guo-Fu Tseng <cooldavid@cooldavid.org>
srcversion: 7CAAF5987A12491BEB1B682
alias: pci:v0000197Bd00000260sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v0000197Bd00000250sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends: mii
vermagic: 2.6.38.1-6.fc14.x86_64 SMP mod_unload
parm: force_pseudohp:Enable pseudo hot-plug feature manually by driver instead of BIOS. (int)
parm: no_pseudohp:Disable pseudo hot-plug feature. (int)
parm: no_extplug:Do not use external plug signal for pseudo hot-plug. (int)

Try using the root account to modprobe that module and see if working works with that module:

su -c 'modprobe jme'

(now try to set up networking on the eth0 interface)...


2) Realtek (wifi)

I suspect the default Fedora 14 kernel (currently 2.6.35.11-83) doesn't have the driver for the Realtek 8176 (yet). But the module for the 8176 is called the rtl8188ce or rtl8192ce (not sure which, there seems to be a confusion about what the name of the driver is, see the opensuse thread...). I noticed these arch linux and SUSE guys talking about getting the source from realtek and building it:

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/g...188se-jet.html

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=109688

[PrestoNP]

Sadly the modprobe did not work however, I did seem to find drivers for my kernel and installation instructions. I am a complete noob at linux and they wish me to do many things I am unfamiliar with like compiling and using a make file ect. Here are the drivers, if you could download them and read the installation steps for me in english I might be able to fix this issue:

http://jecxjo.sdf.org/aur/rtl8192ce_...16.2010.tar.gz

[marko]

what exactly went wrong when you tried to load the jme module?

[PrestoNP]

I typed in the command in the terminal and nothing happened, copied it word for word rooted.

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Actually, the first time nothing happened the second time I get the error user su: jme does not exist

[marko]

Yeah, that's not a failure, lots of commands do their thing silently..

You can confirm if a module was loaded ok by running "lsmod" and check if any of them is 'jme'
It helps a bit to sort the output:

lsmod | sort

modprobe will only say something IF something goes bad

Try setting up your wired internet connection....so it uses that jme module. You can use system-config-network (look for the Network set up tool in the menus if you want to start it that way)

that warning about the "su" and user jme not existing was probably a typo in the command (su thought you meant to change to user "jme" )

[PrestoNP]

I see "jme 27421 0" and sommething else that says "mii 4319 1 jme" not sure if those are the things you are looking for. However, you are a genius! My wired finally works, now doing updates. If possible I would really appreciate more help to get the wireless working, people have said the driver package I posted works, but I am a noob to linux compiling or any thing of the sort.

-Preston

[marko]

The main thing now about the wired interface is that if it continues to not be automatically detected and loaded when you boot the machine you may need to add that modprobe command to the /etc/rc.local file.

You can edit the /etc/rc.local and just add this line (no need for the 'su -c' part)

modprobe jme

Once that's there it should load the wired driver each time you boot the machine

[PrestoNP]

I have some bad news, I had to reinstall because I somehow partitioned my hard drive so I had 6GB of hard drive space. I fixed my hard drive partitioning error but now when I type su -c modprobe jme my wired internet isnt working. I am now official sad.

[marko]

Have you considered just installing Fedora 15 RC2?, it's available and it supports both the wired and wireless parts you have I think.
see
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=261241

When Fedora 15 official arrives it would just "yum update" to become Fedora 15

Another less radical option is just installing the rawhide kernel into your Fedora 14,
shows how it can be done:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...2&postcount=11

[PrestoNP]

I'll try installing the beta, this will be my 4th install of fedora /cry

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Well, I installed f15 (took awhile!) but now my wireless networks are showing up as well as my wired. However, I can't access the internet.

[marko]

networking usually requires:

1) valid route to a gateway:
route -n should show a entry flagged as "UG" that's set to the address of your gateway (your dsl/cable modem)
2) valid DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf
3) the interface with status including 'UP RUNNING' and with the right address (check with "ip addr show" or "ifconfig" )