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Hilco Wijbenga wrote: |
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> Mmmh, so you think it could be software after all? |
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No, if the light on the firewall and on the NIC itself don't come on |
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when you plug in the ethernet cable, the card isn't working. When |
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a different slot doesn't work either, it seems something on your |
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PCI bus is dead. Does 'lspci -v' still report allright? |
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> How does one check that a NIC is working? |
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By checking that the light goes on and that one can ping the thing |
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at the other end of the cable. :) |
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> Does "ping localhost" |
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> actually use the NIC? Or is that all just software? |
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Localhost is all software. No one on the network knows who |
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127.*.*.* is. |
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> And, yes, the machine works fine otherwise. It's just the network |
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> that's not working. |
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Do you have any other PCI cards you could try, an old sound card |
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perhaps? |
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Benno |
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