> My laptop is working fine with its eth0 connection (wireless not > enabled while at home), so I know there is no problem with the router or > cable modem. But my desktop suddenly can't go anywhere, not even local > pings (printers, other devices). > > The desktop is a six year old ASUS M2NPV-VM with gigabit ethernet > running Xubuntu 12.04. The ethernet has always worked fine, and it was > working fine this morning, but when I came home half an hour again it > can't see the network. The command "sudo ifconfig eth0 up" executes > without error, but just "ifconfig" shows eth0 without displaying an IP > address for it. The IP address 192.168.0.155 is reserved for it in the > router, and looking at the router with Firefox it appears to be > connected. I have shut down and restarted the desktop, and it boots > without apparent error. > > I also did "dmesg |grep eth0" and I got several lines, like: > > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready > forcedeth 0000:00.14.0 eth0: no link during initialization > > Since the motherboard is about six years old I suppose it is possible > that the ethernet parts decided to die today. But I've never had > an ethernet device suddenly die. In any event, I need suggestions for > what to poke at next in order to figure out what is wrong.
Check to make sure none of the ethernet port pins have broken off. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
