Internet works OK in Slackware but not in other distros

Colonel Panic · 2025-09-23 07:46:12

An odd problem at the moment. I've been trying to get online in both MX and Besgnulinux (both of which I installed recently) this morning, but with no luck; however, the internet works just fine in Slackware Current, which I'm posting from now.

Any ideas as to how I can get other distros, especially Debian-related ones such as Besgnu and MX, to connect to the Internet as well as Slack seems to be doing? I didn't do anything different when I installed Slackware from what I did when I installed the other two.

Thanks in advance,

CP .

P.S. Both of those (MX and Besgnu) have worked just fine for getting online in the past; it's just that they aren't doing so right now.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-09-23 08:44:02)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-09-23 14:03:33

This will show your hardware & driver, please share the output from both Slackware and MX:

lspci -knn -d ::02xx

If there is more than one device please indicate which one you're having trouble with. Thanks!

Colonel Panic · 2025-09-23 16:51:45

ere we go;Thanks, I'll do that. It's now working again (in Besgnu anyway).

Edit: here we go (this is Besgnulinux, which has a Debian Stable base);

lspci -knn -d ::02xx

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1691] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell XPS 8300 [1028:04aa]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-09-23 16:52:36)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-09-23 17:36:18

That card should be supported. If Besgnu wasn't working but now it is there might be a problem with the cable and/or connector — intermittent faults are usually hardware related.

EDIT: typing gibberish (as usual).

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2025-09-23 17:37:14)

Colonel Panic · 2025-09-24 18:37:54

Thanks for replying (again)

The odd thing is that Slackware just keeps on working consistently even when the others don't; I'm posting from Slack now after having just failed to get online with OpenSUSE.

I'm suspecting a driver problem.

BTW, the output to the command is the same in MX and Slackware too;

lspci -knn -d ::02xx

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1691] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell XPS 8300 [1028:04aa]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-09-24 18:39:52)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-09-25 06:50:11

Did some digging, others have fixed signal dropouts with that driver by adding iommu.passthrough=1 as a kernel command line parameter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_on_mac/c … th_kernel/

An Ubuntu bug report suggests using ethtool(8) to enable highdma:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … comments/9

You can check the applied kernel command line in Slackware & the others with

cat /proc/cmdline

If those suggestions don't help we can check for conflicting networking services in MX (although this is highly unlikely):

tree /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants

Colonel Panic · 2025-09-25 08:03:41

Thanks! I'll check those links out. ConnMan (Connection Manager) in antiX sometimes works to get an internet connection restarted when it's dropped out (I'm posting this from Damn Small, which is based on antiX 32).

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-09-25 22:43:36)

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Internet works OK in Slackware but not in other distros

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Re: Internet works OK in Slackware but not in other distros

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