Re: lost nic

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

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On Monday 16 February 2004 12:19 pm, Marty Landman wrote:
> At 03:17 PM 2/16/2004, Greg Madden wrote:
> >Ping localhost doesn't use the nic, internal inerface.
>
> Ok.
>
> >Ping something else on your net.
>
> Nothing else will ping at all.
>
> >Bring down the eth(x) interface, remove the module for the nic,
> > modprobe the module and look for error messages.
>
> Total newbie here Greg. Could you please be more explicit? Also am I
> right in thinking that both lights being on on the nic and also the
> light on on my switch may point to a software rather than hardware
> failure?
>
> I should also mention I'm using the tulip driver for a netgear
> fa310tx, maybe that isn't a good one to use. However it did work for
> a few days; weird?
>
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Use an xterm window, as root, to execute the commands. 
1. 'ifconfig eth(x) down'
2. 'rmmod tulip'
3. 'modprobe tulip'

AFAIK  the tulip module is the correct module for the FA310, if modprobe 
succeeds then it probably is.
Now try to ping another box. Some caveats, it depends on how your box 
gets its IP address, DHCP or Static, the windows stuff I don't know 
about but can have an adverse affect on a mixed network, afaik.

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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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