Cannot connect to the internet with Mint8

[jayjoshi]

Hi,

I'm a real newbie. Just downloaded the iso, burned it and used it to install Mint8 on an old WIndows XP computer, just overwrote everything. It was a breeze. Everything I have tried seems to work fine, but clicking on Firefox tells me the internet is not working. I had enabled the firewall, so I disabled it again and still no luck. I pul the internet cable and stick it in a WIndows computer and the internet works. I pull the cable and put it back in my new Mint8 computer and no luck. I assume this proves everything downstream of the cable end is working.
I trawled google, but soon realized these issues are very specific, found this forum, joined and here I am begging for help.
I read some posts here so to try and cut a couple of iterations here is some info. Sorry about it being inline, I couldn't get the system to accept any or no file extensions so I don't know how to upload an attachment.
I am hard wired to a router, as I said the same cable when plugged into another computer works fine. Two days ago the same cable worked fine in this computer when it was running Windows, so I presume the hardware is still fine.

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:b8:4d:76:f6
inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:b8ff:fe4d:76f6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:91 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:17510 (17.5 KB) TX bytes:15480 (15.4 KB)

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev ff)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)
03:00.0 Modem: Broadcom Corporation BCM4212 v.90 56k modem (rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller
03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

lsmod

Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 3740 1
nls_cp437 5372 1
vfat 10716 1
fat 51452 1 vfat
cbc 3516 109
aes_i586 8124 110
aes_generic 27484 1 aes_i586
ecb 2524 1
binfmt_misc 8356 1
dm_crypt 12928 0
snd_intel8x0 30168 2
snd_ac97_codec 101216 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1532 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 37920 0
snd_mixer_oss 16028 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 75296 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 2656 0
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
snd_seq_midi 6432 0
snd_rawmidi 22208 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6940 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
iptable_filter 3100 0
snd_seq 50224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
ip_tables 11692 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16544 1 ip_tables
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6920 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcmcia 36808 0
snd 59204 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7264 1 snd
yenta_socket 24200 1
rsrc_nonstatic 11644 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 35792 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
psmouse 56180 0
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp 32272 0
serio_raw 5280 0
joydev 10272 0
lp 8964 0
ppdev 6688 0
parport_pc 31940 1
parport 35340 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_raid45 84228 0
xor 15620 1 dm_raid45
usbhid 38208 0
usb_storage 52544 1
e100 32452 0
mii 5212 1 e100
floppy 54916 0
ohci1394 29900 0
ieee1394 86596 1 ohci1394
intel_agp 27484 1
agpgart 34988 1 intel_agp




Any help is much appreciated.

[jayjoshi]

I just read some more hints ..here is more information..
03:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller [8086:1050] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device [107b:2024]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 66 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at e2006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Region 1: I/O ports at 2000
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e100
Kernel modules: e100

Thanks - Jay

[capt]

Did you click on the networking icon in the panel to enable? Left and right click give different options. I only mention this because a newbie may be used to other methods.

[jayjoshi]

Its amazing. I don't know what changed, nothing as far as I know. I did reboot since last night when it wasn't working. But that is such a Windows solution.
I am typing this at my new working Linux browser! Thanks all for listening.

[bzzzzz]

Glad you're happy.

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