Re: SL 6.4 Ethernet Port is dead - maybe

2014-03-07 Thread John Lauro
Did you try a cold boot? I have seen problematic network drivers that work after a cold boot, but fail if you do a warm boot on a box. Have you tried ethtool eth0? Does it show link detected? It might be worth trying a live cd of something newer that would more likely support network of

Re: SL 6.4 Ethernet Port is dead - maybe

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7 March 2014 14:47, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: I am looking for a way to check the functionality of an Ethernet port on a 4 mo old new system. We use this box for number crunching and reducing data. Since no one uses the desktop we left it as Gnome and set up

RE: SL 6.4 Ethernet Port is dead - maybe

2014-03-07 Thread Kraus, Dave (GE Healthcare)
Just a guess since I didn't see you say you did this - if yum-autoupdate was turned on, you may have gotten a new kernel installed and not realized it. When you rebooted, the driver for the ethernet port that you got installed for the old kernel probably would need to be reinstalled for the

Re: SL 6.4 Ethernet Port is dead - maybe

2014-03-07 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Grab the latest live Ubuntu live DVD or CD. See if *that* can talk to the ethernet port, since the kernels tend to be more recent than the industry grade, stable kernels in Scientific Linux. But after a power failure on a clear day sounds like hardware failure.. I assume you;ve tested the cables