On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:36:29PM -0000, Ed wrote: > > You might be on to something here. I took the old computer out of its > cubby hole and opened it up and just 'looked' inside. I didn't re-seat > anything, just looked. I put it back, reconnected all cables, and went > to lunch. When I returned, I logged onto one of my other computers, and > used the broswer to look at the log for the router. To my surprise, it > showed some entries from the old computer, so I went over to the old > computer and tried to ping Berkeley and to my further surprise, Burkeley > answered. So I fired up Firefox on the old computer and it connected to > www.debian.org. It has been working now with no problems for about three > hours. I really didn't fix it, but it is working. Of course, if there > is something that is loose, or intermittent, or damaged, it is going to > fail again soon, but at the moment, it is working. >
that's odd and frustrating. How many computers are connecting through that router? Is there perhaps a limit on how many boxes it will let through? If so, maybe enough laptops went offline to let the other one through. That's a total shot in the dark though. Be prepared to do that magic again. You'll probably find that it helpsif you wave your right hand in the air while brushing the dust out with your left. And it probably helps if your standing instead of sitting when it reboots... ;-) A
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