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Hi all, |
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My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading |
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something and the connection just died on me. |
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(I have my Gentoo box behind a firewall box [also Gentoo, of course]; |
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I moved the cable that connects the firewall [to my ADSL modem] |
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directly to my Gentoo box to make the setup simpler during testing.) |
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* I checked the cable and the ADSL modem with my firewall box and they're ok; |
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* I replaced my NIC with one from my firewall box and even tried a |
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different slot; |
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* I had DHCPCD use the MAC that my firewall box uses (just in case my |
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ISP cares). |
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The NIC is recognised and the right module/driver is loaded. The light |
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(LAN Link or something like that) on the ADSL modem, however, never |
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comes on (it does when I move the cable back into my firewall box). |
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What could be causing this? Is this a motherboard issue? It seems to |
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me that at least one of the NICs I tried must be ok. :-) Any advice |
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and/or ideas would be appreciated. |
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Cheers, |
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Hilco |
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P.S. How does one check that a NIC is operational anyway? If I "ping |
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localhost" does that actually excercise the NIC or is it all software, |
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inside the kernel? |
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