This is probably going to look like I'm out of control but I don't know if
this got posted to the list.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Russel Caldwell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry. It did it again.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Russel Caldwell <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Sorry in the delay of the reply. I've been preoccupied with getting ready
>> for school.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Charles Curley <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Russ, please reply to the list so we keep a record in case anyone else
>>> see this problem, and also so other folks can pitch in if they know
>>> something I don't (a vast domain). Thanks
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry about that. I thought I just hit reply so I'm not sure what
>> happened.
>>
>>
>>>  > >
>>> > > Wired? Wireless? Chipset? Driver? Ubuntu 10.4 "good buddy" or Ubuntu
>>> > > 10.10 "mendacious meerkat"?
>>> > >
>>> > > I know wireless doesn't work. When I plugged it in to a wired
>>> > > connection it
>>> > didn't seem to work either.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "didn't seem to work"? Did you get a link light on
>>> both the computer (assuming it has one; most do) and the switch? Did
>>> the link lights agree on the data rates (i.e. both agree that the
>>> connection is, say, gigabit)?
>>>
>>> If you got a link light, did you get an IP address? "ifconfig" for that.
>>>
>>>
>> The link light and the switch light don't go on.
>>
>>
>>> Hmmm, that's interesting. The wired and wireless stuff should not have
>>> hardware or drivers in common, which makes me wonder if Network Manager
>>> is crashing. Run this command now, and note the results:
>>>
>>> ps aux | grep Network
>>>
>>> My results look like:
>>>
>>> r...@dragon:~# ps aux | grep Network
>>> root       928  0.0  0.1  19252  1784 ?        Ssl  Dec26   1:10
>>> NetworkManager
>>> root      2746  0.0  0.0   4012   744 pts/2    S+   17:10   0:00 grep
>>> --color=auto Network
>>> root     22085  0.0  0.0   2296   468 ?        S    Dec28   0:00
>>> /sbin/dhclient -d -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action -pf
>>> /var/run/dhclient-eth1.pid -lf
>>> /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient-fd700ea5-35ec-44b1-ba7a-d200380ccce7-eth1.lease -cf
>>> /var/run/nm-dhclient-eth1.conf eth1
>>> r...@dragon:~#
>>>
>>> This is the results when I run the command:
>> r...@rlc:~$ ps aux | grep Network
>> root       843  0.0  0.1   8640  3792 ?        Ss   16:02   0:00
>> NetworkManager
>> rlc       1513  0.0  0.0   3328   876 pts/0    S+   16:10   0:00 grep
>> --color=auto Network
>>
>>
>>
>>> First you need to know the name of the device. "lspci" E.g. I have:
>>>
>>> The results are:
>> 10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan]
>> Network Connection (rev 02)
>> 18:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit
>> Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
>>
>>
>>> "lsmod | less" will give you a complete list of all the modules you are
>>> running at the time.
>>>
>>> It looks like the wireless module is iwl3945. If I were to guess for the
>> ethernet, it would be i915. I did cut some of the results that looked to be
>> obviously something else such as sound and video.
>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> nls_iso8859_1           3249  0
>> nls_cp437               4919  0
>> binfmt_misc             6587  1
>> tpm_infineon            7745  0
>> fbcon                  35102  71
>> arc4                    1153  2
>> pcmcia                 30784  0
>> iwl3945                68727  0
>> i915                  287458  3
>> iwlcore               106050  1 iwl3945
>> drm_kms_helper         29329  1 i915
>> ppdev                   5259  0
>> tpm_tis                 7422  0
>> yenta_socket           20408  1
>> rsrc_nonstatic         10015  1 yenta_socket
>> mac80211              205402  2 iwl3945,iwlcore
>> drm                   162409  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
>> i2c_algo_bit            5028  1 i915
>> parport_pc             25962  1
>> tpm                    13484  2 tpm_infineon,tpm_tis
>> tpm_bios                5266  1 tpm
>> pcmcia_core            32964  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
>> serio_raw               3978  0
>> input_polldev           2482  1 lis3lv02d
>> led_class               2864  3 iwl3945,iwlcore,hp_accel
>> cfg80211              126528  3 iwl3945,iwlcore,mac80211
>> intel_agp              24375  2 i915
>> agpgart                31724  2 drm,intel_agp
>> lp                      7028  0
>> parport                32635  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
>> ohci1394               26950  0
>> ieee1394               81181  1 ohci1394
>> tg3                   109324  0
>>
>>
>

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