From: Joe Apuzzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/07/17 Thu AM 09:48:41 CDT To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mhvlug] Thunderstorm-damaged modem
I installed Version DSL in my Mothers apartment, and after a power outage I noticed that although the modem lights indicated that it was connected and working there was no access to the internet. After many hours of futzing around I ended up in the modem's web control panel and noticed that even though the modem was set to auto-connect it did not auto-login. I clicked the login button and bingo! back online. The panel I speak of is where you entered your PPPoE user-name and password. Hope that helps Joe Thanks for the reply. I can no longer access my modem (192.168.1.1) at all. When I boot either Fedora or Ubuntu, eth0 fails to come up. With Fedora, I have quiet boot disabled, so I see all the boot messages. When Fedora tries to start eth0, it displays a red "failed". If I issue ifconfig -a after boot, eth0 is not displayed. But ethtool eth0 does report 100 Mbps, and "link-detected=yes". This leads me to believe my NIC is OK. If I issue "service network start" after boot, I get a message SIOCFFLAGS (sp?), "resource temporarily unavailable". I read a post on an Anandtech forum about a lightning damaged modem where the modem worked OK, but the ethernet interface was destroyed. On the last day I had Internet connectivity, I remained online with no problem for six hours after the (very mild and distant) thunderstorm. On reboot the next day, and on all subsequent days, eth0 fails to start. _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
