Re: Ethernet port dead
Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> writes:
> On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Morgan Gangwere <0.fractalus@gmail.com> writes:
>> > "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output:
>> >
>> > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
>> >
>> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote:
>> >> But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter
>> >> (firewire to ethernet)? :-?
>> >
>> > the 1394 standard says that a computer which supports 1394 must also
>> > support "1394 networking". Short end of it, if you need to move some
>> > data between two 1394 capable computers, you use that. They act like
>> > normal, everyday, nondescript ether ports in software, no less.
>>
>> But eth0 is not the device I'm using: the device I'm using as an ethernet
>> port is eth1, but it doesn't appear in dmesg nor in lspci output: this is
>> /etc/network/interfaces:
>>
>> auto lo
>> iface lo inet loopback
>>
>> auto eth1
>> allow-hotplug eth1
>> iface eth1 inet static
>> address 192.168.0.1
>> netmask 255.255.255.0
>>
>>
>> Rodolfo
>
> If lspci does't find your ethernet controller it probably died, that happens.
> AFAIK lspci finds functioning hardware on the pci bus whether or not modules
> for devices are installed.
>
> On a laptop, options are usb>ethernet or a pcmcia card if available.
If I can solve the proble with a simple usb-ethernet adapter, it's not much too
bad. How shall I configure the system with it? The same way as the ethernet
port, via the file /etc/network/interfaces?
Morgan Gangwere <0.fractalus@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Had any electrical storms? Switches that have been acting up? New
> carpeting? Power outages? Brownouts? Etc?
>
>
> Sounds like the device is busted, frankly.
Nothing of all that. The computer is 5 years old, maybe this?
Thanks
Rodolfo
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