Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

[Kenneth Prugh]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:59:09 -0800
"Hilco Wijbenga" <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com> wrote:

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

Are you using the sky2 driver for your NIC by chance?