Not connecting to wired ethernet? Help please

Hi all,

I'm a noobie when it comes to Linux.
Oh, my name is Dan.

Ok well I have an old laptop (designed for Windows Vista apparently) yet cannot seem to run xp or 7.

I had tried various different distros of Linux.. Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora I could go on, but I wont, what worked was still painfully slow, and others had various bugs, my poor knowledge of Linux couldn't fix.

This brings me to Zorin 9! I installed Zorin 9 lite on said laptop. Love it, absolutely fantastic! What was to be really a portable media center for streaming TV whilst at my grandmothers, has turned into a completely usable laptop I now use quite a bit. It does occasionaly run out of memory for the web browser, but that is me being tab hungry lol.

Having had such a great experience with the slow a** laptop, I decided I would give Zorin Core a go on my self built main pc.

I built it in 2007. (Intel dual core E8600 overclocked to 4Ghz, Asus mobo - cant remember model, 8G dual channel Ram, about 6TB worth of hard drives, HD6750, Asus dx sound card )

It ran XP until the beta of 7 became available, and has run win 7 ever since, without problem, and has yet to have noticably slowed down. I tried windows 8.......... what a load of (censored) lol.

Anyway, rambling on a bit here lol.

This morning, I installed Zorin 9 core 64 alongside windows 7. Zorin connected to ethernet while it was installing, but after rebooting I cannot get it to connect and I'm kinda lost as to what to do.

So as per title, any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am back on windows 7 for the time being, disapointed as i wanted to play with my new os.

TIA

Dan.

Further information............

Both on board and pci nics are showing as realtek, both are grayed out in network settings.

I have almost same problem, mb is GA-GC330UD 2gb RAM, as hdd I use kingston traveler 32gb usb stick, only Zorin OS 9 is installed, but in my case it doesn't work even in Zorin live. I was try in other PC with nvidia chipset which is connected to the same network and works fine, also windows 8 works on GA-GC330UD . So I guess that problem is in mb or Intel® 945GC Express Chipset .

dgacampbell wrote:Hi all,

I'm a noobie when it comes to Linux.
Oh, my name is Dan.

Ok well I have an old laptop (designed for Windows Vista apparently) yet cannot seem to run xp or 7.

I had tried various different distros of Linux.. Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora I could go on, but I wont, what worked was still painfully slow, and others had various bugs, my poor knowledge of Linux couldn't fix.

This brings me to Zorin 9! I installed Zorin 9 lite on said laptop. Love it, absolutely fantastic! What was to be really a portable media center for streaming TV whilst at my grandmothers, has turned into a completely usable laptop I now use quite a bit. It does occasionaly run out of memory for the web browser, but that is me being tab hungry lol.

Having had such a great experience with the slow a** laptop, I decided I would give Zorin Core a go on my self built main pc.

I built it in 2007. (Intel dual core E8600 overclocked to 4Ghz, Asus mobo - cant remember model, 8G dual channel Ram, about 6TB worth of hard drives, HD6750, Asus dx sound card )

It ran XP until the beta of 7 became available, and has run win 7 ever since, without problem, and has yet to have noticably slowed down. I tried windows 8.......... what a load of (censored) lol.

Anyway, rambling on a bit here lol.

This morning, I installed Zorin 9 core 64 alongside windows 7. Zorin connected to ethernet while it was installing, but after rebooting I cannot get it to connect and I'm kinda lost as to what to do.

So as per title, any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am back on windows 7 for the time being, disapointed as i wanted to play with my new os.

TIA

Dan.

That could be your issue! GNU/Linux CANNOT see more than 2 TB!

frabrne wrote:I have almost same problem, mb is GA-GC330UD 2gb RAM, as hdd I use kingston traveler 32gb usb stick, only Zorin OS 9 is installed, but in my case it doesn't work even in Zorin live. I was try in other PC with nvidia chipset which is connected to the same network and works fine, also windows 8 works on GA-GC330UD . So I guess that problem is in mb or Intel® 945GC Express Chipset .

Please respect the OP!:

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That could be your issue! GNU/Linux CANNOT see more than 2 TB!

You are able to if you use gpt, or if it is more than one drive and they are only 2TB each.

Please run these commands in terminal (Zorin Menu > Accessories > Terminal)

Code:

ip addr
for interface in $( ip addr | egrep -o "[1-9]: .+:" | cut -d ":" -f 2 ); do ethtool $interface; done


The output should look something like this.

Code:

[USERNAME@HOSTNAME~]$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens132: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1f:bc:01:ee:2d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: ens133: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1f:bc:01:ee:2c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.74/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic ens133
       valid_lft 68511sec preferred_lft 68511sec
    inet6 fe80::21f:bcff:fe01:ee2c/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

[USERNAME@HOSTNAME~]$ for interface in $( ip addr | egrep -o "[1-9]: .+:" | cut -d ":" -f 2 ); do ethtool $interface; done
Settings for lo:
Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Operation not permitted
        Link detected: yes
Settings for ens132:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No
        Speed: Unknown!
        Duplex: Unknown! (255)
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Operation not permitted
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
                               drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err
        Link detected: no
Settings for ens133:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Operation not permitted
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
                               drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err
        Link detected: yes
[USERNAME@HOSTNAME~]$


The first command shows ip address information for all your interfaces, and the second runs "ethtool <interface>" on each of your interfaces.
Please paste the results here =D