| Joseph__ | I need help establishing a wired connection with my ubuntu desktop | 18:39 |
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| wrst | Hi Joseph__ we will try | 18:40 |
| wrst | Joseph__: in *most* cases it should just work what type of problems are you running into? | 18:40 |
| Joseph__ | my computer will connect and then disconnect after a few seconds | 18:43 |
| Joseph__ | im wired | 18:43 |
| Joseph__ | hello | 18:49 |
| average_guy | what type of router or gateway are wired to Joseph__? | 18:49 |
| Joseph__ | linksys ea6900 | 18:50 |
| * average_guy is googling | 18:51 | |
| Joseph__ | i have searched so many sites for solutions but none work. | 18:52 |
| wrst | Joseph__: is that a problem with any other setup? | 18:53 |
| Joseph__ | no just my desktop | 18:54 |
| Joseph__ | my laptop, phone, and tablets work | 18:54 |
| wrst | what type of network card does it have? | 18:54 |
| Joseph__ | realtek | 18:54 |
| wrst | have a model to go along with? | 18:55 |
| Joseph__ | is there a command i can use to find out | 18:55 |
| wrst | Joseph__: yes type lspci and that should give you the model of it | 18:55 |
| wrst | you will have to parse through a few items that just list all your pci devices | 18:55 |
| * wrst assumes its a pci network card | 18:56 | |
| average_guy | type "lspci" in a terminal | 18:56 |
| Joseph__ | RTL8111 | 18:57 |
| Joseph__ | i believe | 18:57 |
| wrst | that sounds right | 18:57 |
| Joseph__ | what should i do | 18:57 |
| wrst | what version of ubuntu Joseph__? this card looks like it has been an issue | 18:57 |
| Joseph__ | 14.04 | 18:58 |
| Joseph__ | most recent | 18:58 |
| wrst | ok Joseph__ I have a similar problem with a card I have sometimes I see a suggestion | 18:58 |
| wrst | first off install ethtool | 18:59 |
| wrst | sudo apt-get install ethtool | 18:59 |
| wrst | then try forcing 100Mbps/full-duplex mode | 18:59 |
| wrst | sudo ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off | 18:59 |
| wrst | that's assuming your network card is eth0 | 18:59 |
| wrst | whoa Joseph__ I see the solution | 19:00 |
| Joseph__ | that command gave me an error | 19:01 |
| Joseph__ | :( | 19:01 |
| wrst | did you install ethtool? | 19:01 |
| wrst | Joseph__: I don't think you need to do that | 19:01 |
| Joseph__ | it came installed | 19:01 |
| wrst | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2224262 | 19:01 |
| wrst | look it comment #3 | 19:01 |
| Joseph__ | the one about build essentials | 19:02 |
| wrst | yes | 19:02 |
| wrst | average_guy: ^^^ that look good to you? | 19:02 |
| average_guy | It looks outstanding :D | 19:03 |
| wrst | Joseph__: nothing there that should hurt anything if it doesn't work | 19:03 |
| Joseph__ | it was unable to locate package build_essential | 19:04 |
| wrst | Joseph__: it is build-essential | 19:05 |
| wrst | and you would be best to copy/paste those probably | 19:05 |
| Joseph__ | the command is letter for letter and it gave me "Unable to locate package build-essential" | 19:06 |
| Joseph__ | "Unable to locate package dkms" | 19:06 |
| wrst | oh Unit193, you around? | 19:06 |
| wrst | Joseph__: try sudo apt-get update | 19:07 |
| wrst | after updating the repos then try that | 19:07 |
| Unit193 | wrst: Just. | 19:07 |
| wrst | Unit193: ^^^ | 19:07 |
| wrst | all that jazz, and howdy btw | 19:07 |
| Joseph__ | all of the results from that command failed. | 19:07 |
| Unit193 | Howdy. | 19:07 |
| wrst | Joseph__: you don't have internet do you ? :) | 19:08 |
| average_guy | he cannot update or install with no connection | 19:08 |
| * wrst feels like a dummy telling someone to download stuff when they are fixing a network card! | 19:08 | |
| Joseph__ | its alright | 19:08 |
| Unit193 | wrst: Well, you still kind of can, with apt-offline. | 19:09 |
| wrst | Unit193: yes | 19:09 |
| wrst | I was just thinking of going and grabbing the .debs and installing manually | 19:09 |
| Joseph__ | So what should i do next? | 19:10 |
| wrst | if it were me I would consider downloading those debs, using a usb stick then installing, and then running the blacklist commands, but may be some better ideas | 19:11 |
| wrst | but I have a feeling there are better minds and ideas about to speak out :) | 19:12 |
| Joseph__ | is this a problem with my card or ubuntu | 19:12 |
| wrst | from the looks of things your card and ubuntu aren't getting along | 19:13 |
| wrst | I have had that issue with some other gigabit cards personally, that ethtool command usually fixes it temporarily | 19:13 |
| Joseph__ | .debs what is the deal with tha | 19:14 |
| Joseph__ | that | 19:14 |
| average_guy | they are the individual packages that you were trying to download | 19:16 |
| wrst | Joseph__: have you done anything with the network settings? | 19:17 |
| Joseph__ | i tried but nothing worked so i reverted back to the original | 19:18 |
| wrst | ok just going dhcp all the way? | 19:19 |
| Joseph__ | what? | 19:19 |
| wrst | in your network settings | 19:19 |
| Joseph__ | what do you want me to do? | 19:19 |
| wrst | i'm not for sure | 19:20 |
| wrst | I know what likely needs to be done I think... | 19:20 |
| wrst | average_guy: what do you think? | 19:20 |
| Joseph__ | what? | 19:20 |
| * wrst doesn't want to confuse the process | 19:20 | |
| average_guy | looks like you need linux-headers-generic.deb build-essential.deb & dkms.deb from http://packages.ubuntu.com/ and r8168-dkms_8.038.00-1_all.deb from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/r8168 | 19:21 |
| Joseph__ | what do i do with them | 19:21 |
| average_guy | download on a device that is connected put on usb stick and copy to the affected machine | 19:21 |
| Joseph__ | where on the machine do i copy them to? | 19:22 |
| average_guy | it does not matter as long as you can find them | 19:22 |
| Joseph__ | will this fix it | 19:23 |
| wrst | you will need to install them after you get them copied over | 19:23 |
| wrst | if i'm not mistaken that should just be a double click and enter in your password | 19:23 |
| average_guy | once they are on the machine you should be able to double click on them and install with ubuntu software center | 19:23 |
| average_guy | or I can give you the terminal commands | 19:24 |
| Joseph__ | i cant find those packages on http://packages.ubuntu.com/ | 19:24 |
| average_guy | ok one sec, i will locate | 19:24 |
| Joseph__ | thanks | 19:24 |
| average_guy | http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/allpackages | 19:26 |
| average_guy | type ctrl-f and put in the pkg you need | 19:27 |
| average_guy | will take you to it | 19:27 |
| average_guy | leave off the .deb | 19:28 |
| Joseph__ | doing that now | 19:28 |
| Unit193 | average_guy: You're going to find yourself in Dep hell. :P | 19:29 |
| Joseph__ | i see that | 19:29 |
| Joseph__ | when i click on the package i want it dosnt show a download button | 19:31 |
| Unit193 | Down at the bottom of the page, for i386 or amd64. | 19:32 |
| Joseph__ | oh thanks | 19:32 |
| average_guy | I not a terminal ninja Unit193, ex-windows/GUI for life | 19:34 |
| Unit193 | average_guy: Heh, I was talking about r8168-dkms needing dkms, which needs build-essential, dpkg-dev, gcc, make, and more, and those needing their own deps. | 19:35 |
| average_guy | oh yeah :( | 19:36 |
| Joseph__ | it says dependency not satifiable | 19:36 |
| Unit193 | You can just use apt-offline to do all the heavy lifting for you, but the one in the repo won't work. You'll have to use a git snapshot, such as the deb I built almost a month ago and uploaded to http://people.ubuntu.com/~unit193/ | 19:36 |
| Joseph__ | im a bit confused and i have to leave for work but will be back tonight. thanks for all the help. Will anyone be on to help? | 19:38 |
| average_guy | noone ever really leaves this channel, just ask again | 19:40 |
| Unit193 | ...This channel is like Hotel California? | 19:44 |
| average_guy | so it seems :D I like this APT off line tool Unit193, checking it out now | 19:47 |
| Unit193 | If you'd prefer to use system apt-offline, apply http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt-offline/apt-offline.git/commit/?id=948d2b3bf26a174d47aefd2e07c815f096c78af1 | 19:48 |
| Unit193 | But yeah, Xubuntu ships this by default and has a great section in the docs for it. | 19:48 |
| average_guy | http://docs.xubuntu.org/1404/offline-packages.html | 19:53 |
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