<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Does the LED light glow when you plug the ethernet cable to the system?</blockquote><div> yes the LED glows well </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Open a terminal, and tell us the output of: sudo /etc/init.d/network restart</blockquote><div> </div><div> Shutting down interface eth0 [ok] shutting down loopback interface: [ok] Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0...dhclient( 6232) is already running - exiting exiting. failed. [FAILED] </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> /sbin/ifconfig -a</blockquote><div> [root@localhost mahesh]# /sbin/ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:5A:35:D5:21 inet6 addr: fe80::223:5aff:fe35:d521/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12859 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:798766 (780.0 KiB) TX bytes:13690 (13.3 KiB) Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe000 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:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3616 (3.5 KiB) TX bytes:3616 (3.5 KiB) pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr A2:F1:FB:E5:E6:6F BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) [root@localhost mahesh]# </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> /sbin/lsmod</blockquote><div> </div>[root@localhost mahesh]# /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by vfat 12672 1 fat 42784 1 vfat usb_storage 82440 1 sit 12804 0 tunnel4 6792 1 sit nls_utf8 5632 1 fuse 49436 8 sco 12932 2 bridge 43668 0 stp 6148 1 bridge bnep 14848 2 l2cap 21504 3 bnep bluetooth 48608 5 sco,bnep,l2cap sunrpc 155924 3 ip6t_REJECT 7296 2 nf_conntrack_ipv6 15864 2 ip6table_filter 6400 1 ip6_tables 14736 1 ip6table_filter ipv6 229876 27 sit,ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand 9996 1 acpi_cpufreq 12172 2 dm_multipath 17164 0 uinput 10624 0 snd_hda_intel 351124 3 snd_seq_dummy 6660 0 snd_seq_oss 30364 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 48576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event uvcvideo 50312 0 snd_seq_device 10124 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq compat_ioctl32 5120 1 uvcvideo snd_pcm_oss 42496 0 videodev 32000 1 uvcvideo snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss v4l1_compat 15876 2 uvcvideo,videodev i2c_i801 12048 0 snd_pcm 65924 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss i2c_core 21396 1 i2c_i801 pcspkr 6272 0 sdhci_pci 10624 0 jmb38x_ms 12292 0 sdhci 17668 1 sdhci_pci snd_timer 22024 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm memstick 12060 1 jmb38x_ms mmc_core 43676 1 sdhci snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel joydev 12736 0 r8169 32260 0 mii 8192 1 r8169 snd 50616 16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep soundcore 9416 1 snd wmi 9768 0 video 20244 0 output 6528 1 video [root@localhost mahesh]# <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> /sbin/route -n</blockquote><div> </div>[root@localhost mahesh]# /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface [root@localhost mahesh]# <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> /sbin/lspci</blockquote><div> </div>[root@localhost mahesh]# /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 06e8 (rev a1) 02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors Device 7160 (rev 03) 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 06:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2382 06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2381 06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2383 06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technologies, Inc. Device 2384 [root@localhost mahesh]# </div> These are my outputs respect to your question thanks for the reply -- magesh Life is "just tryin out things to see if they work" <a href="http://magesh.geexhq.com/">http://magesh.geexhq.com/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/mageshcse">http://twitter.com/mageshcse</a>