From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J4Mkr-0006Xr-P3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:40:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBHKcg0i021062; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:38:42 GMT Received: from psmtp13.wxs.nl (psmtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.247.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBHKYMnG016071 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:34:22 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by psmtp13.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JT7001NBNTAR8@psmtp13.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:34:22 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:33:27 +0100 From: Benno Schulenberg Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200712172133.27514.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200712151638.00861.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 505aff28-944c-49ef-9178-4f9278b1d6bc X-Archives-Hash: 9edf28fc58283122a411291aef512372 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Mmmh, so you think it could be software after all? No, if the light on the firewall and on the NIC itself don't come on when you plug in the ethernet cable, the card isn't working. When a different slot doesn't work either, it seems something on your PCI bus is dead. Does 'lspci -v' still report allright? > How does one check that a NIC is working? By checking that the light goes on and that one can ping the thing at the other end of the cable. :) > Does "ping localhost" > actually use the NIC? Or is that all just software? Localhost is all software. No one on the network knows who 127.*.*.* is. > And, yes, the machine works fine otherwise. It's just the network > that's not working. Do you have any other PCI cards you could try, an old sound card perhaps? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list