ethernet cable attached but no internet on Acer Aspire 5000

[Valtam]

A wireless dongle can work. Depends on the make and model. Go for it.

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[TheDead]

Hi,
The ethernet card in this computer seems to be a SIS SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet.
I know that in the Windows world I had a lot of problems with SiS in general.
I could be that this require a special driver... but I'm a no0b

Cheers!

[JanetBiggar]

Update: Yay! the wireless dongle worked to give the computer WiFi access.  I borrowed one and now have ordered one for myself (Panda 300 Mbsp Wireless N USB adaptor from Amazon that indicates it is compatible with Linux).  The one I borrowed here costs about $30.00 (D-Link DWA 132) so since all this work/cost is as a volunteer I figured I'd save some money.

Now that I have performed the updates I tried taking out the WiFi adaptor and still there is no WiFi without using the adaptor...I did reboot the system after updating.

Should I simply resign myself to using the WiFi adaptor when it arrives?

(Not sure if this is linked in terms of maybe missing drivers causing both issues, however like another person whose post I found, I cannot change my screen resolution from 640 x 480, there are no other choices.  However I will post the resolution question in the appropriate part of the forum for suggestions.)

[trinidad]

Hi [member=7067]JanetBiggar[/member]

First- In the BIOS section disable network boot (eliminates DMI controlling addressing abitrarily) In the BIOS Main section look for PCI devices. Under BIOS INFO section look to see if your ethernet card is listed. If your ethernet card is listed in the BIOS but does not show up in your LL system info the issue is likely a systemd connection naming problem. You can look for your card in LL >System>System> Info from the LL main menu, or run lspci. Support for 10 by 100 ethernet is pretty universal in Linux. If your card is listed in the BIOS and not in LL, or is listed in LL but not working, chances are the connection address is borked by systemd. That can be fixed.

TC 

[JanetBiggar]

Ok I will do these steps and report back, however probably won’t be till Friday. Thanks for this.

[JanetBiggar]

So I looked hard through the BIOS and it seems more basic that the BIOS on other computers.  It did not list any of the above.

It is working with a Wifi USB stick so as this stage since I can set up the youth who uses this computer with a USB Wifi stick at a reasonable cost (about $15 USD) I think I will leave it at this unless running the lspci in LL MIGHT offer an easy fix..? 

Thanks everyone for your help and efforts,
Janet