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? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
