It looks as if the ethernet port on my daughter's Lombard has broken. I don't know for certain yet, and this weekend we'll be able to test it out for sure on my network, but after some months of excellent DSL connection via a cable modem, she now gets nothing. The cable company engineer has attended, everything up to the Lombard tests out OK, and he even plugged in a known-good modem and cable, and this didn't improve her position. Her networking configuration is as it should be, so it's not that either.
I know how to do some jobs on the Lombard/Pismo series of PBs, but replacing the ethernet port is not something I've thought about before. Does the physical port connect straight into the logic board, or is it on a replaceable daughter-board? Any other advice for this situation? We've already thought of the 'connect a wifi base station to the cable modem and use a wifi card in the Lombard' solution; that effectively sets our cost ceiling for repairing the Lombard's ethernet setup.
Tom Burke
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