Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > I'm starting to wonder if I have two broken NICs after all. Do they work when you plug them into your firewall box? If they do, then it can really be only the cable. Are you certain that you're not using a cross-over cable when you need a straight one, or the other way

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-19 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 18, 2007 11:04 AM, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > Yes, I have a PCI sound card and it definitely works. My Oggs are > > still playing. :-) > > Does the soundcard also work in the slots that you tried the NICs > in? (If the soundcard doesn't work the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Yes, I have a PCI sound card and it definitely works. My Oggs are > still playing. :-) Does the soundcard also work in the slots that you tried the NICs in? (If the soundcard doesn't work there, don't try the NIC in the original slot of the soundcard, unless you're prepa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-18 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 17, 2007 12:33 PM, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. D

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
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. D

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-17 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 15, 2007 8:37 AM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you seem to have checked that the problem is not related to > cables/NICs/modem/router - does the machine work fine otherwise? If you had > bad memory/fs corruption during your download when the NIC failed it may be > that you need t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007 3:46 PM, Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you using the sky2 driver for your NIC by chance? > > Nope, I've tried a tulip and a 3COM NIC. Pretty run-of-the-mill. :-) Since you seem to have checked that the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 14, 2007 3:46 PM, Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you using the sky2 driver for your NIC by chance? Nope, I've tried a tulip and a 3COM NIC. Pretty run-of-the-mill. :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 14, 2007 3:37 PM, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga 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've been experiencing something similar the past few weeks. I found

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Kenneth Prugh
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Roy Wright
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading > something and the connection just died on me. > > Howdy, I've been experiencing something similar the past few weeks. I found that if I kill dhcpcd then restart it then my connection r

[gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
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