On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:59:09 -0800 "Hilco Wijbenga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? Are you using the sky2 driver for your NIC by chance?
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