Cfrgtkky

Ok first of all I was trying to connect my server to my router and set up my apache2 server so my server could be viewable online.

But in my attempts to connect, I found that I have no eth0 connection. I'm still not completely sure why or what that is, but I'm pretty sure it's important.

I think the bt router that I'm using is going to be a bit temperamental with my server but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

at the moment though I am trying to install new network drivers for my realtek r8111 network adapter so I can access all the settings for my network.

I managed to find the driver and have attempted to install it, but it needed a program called make. which I installed but now I get the error:

"make: *** No rule to make target 'all'. Stop."

I've accessed the autorun.sh file that comes with the driver, and have found the line that the autorun gets stuck on but don't know much about make or installing drivers so am stuck as to what too do now.

Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks.

edit:

Results from dmesg | grep r8169'

[1831.373396] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded

[1831.373412] r8169 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM: OS doesn't have ASPM control

[1831.373634] r8169 0000:03:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X

[1831.373810] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: RTL8168f/8111f at 0xf841c000, (servercode), XID 08000880 IRQ 43

[1831.373812] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: jumbo features [frame: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]

[1831.564275] r8169 0000:03:00.0: p4p1: link down

[1831.564309] r8169 0000:03:00.0: p4p1: link down

[1831.183660] r8169 0000:03:00.0: p4p1: link up

That's what I get and I can make that much sense of it

To compile a driver from source code requires the packages linux-headers and build-essential and all their dependencies. They would be very difficult to download and install without an internet connection.

The default server install includes the driver by default. Let's load it and see if your ethernet comes to life:

sudo modprobe r8169

ifconfig

Is there an eth0 now? If so, let's see if it will connect:

sudo dhclient -v eth0

If there is no eth0, check the log to see what's going wrong:

dmesg | grep r8169

Many servers have several ethernet ports. Therefor, Ubuntu often enumerates ethernet connections as yours is; p4p1, p4p2, etc. I believe this refers to PCI slot 4 and port 1.

If you do:

sudo dhclient -v p4p1

Do you get an IP address? Check:

ifconfig

Can you reach the world?

ping -c3 www.ubuntu.com

If you are successful, I suggest you edit /etc/network/interfaces using p4p1 like this: No internet on Ubuntu Server 14.04 or 12.04

Just a simple Fix

We just need to Load the Default Ethernet Driver and see if it is active

sudo modprobe r8169

ifconfig