On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:12:02PM -0700, Russel Caldwell wrote: > It's the > same problem as before; the network connection light on the computer doesn't > go on. Any thoughts as to what the problem might be?
That's a really weird problem, and it sounds to me like either the network configuration somehow got really broken, or there is some sort of driver bug. There are a few things I can think of to help track down the problem (and some aren't very fun): 1) If you boot from a livecd, does it work? 2) If you run ifconfig, do you see the ethernet device in the list? If you run "dmesg |less", do you see any error messages? Are there any messages from the ethernet driver about the link going up or down? 3) It's possible that the network driver is broken in the specific kernel that you are running. Does the problem go away if you upgrade the kernel (perhaps over a wireless link)? If the livecd works, can you use the version of the kernel that is on the livecd? 4) If you reinstall, does the problem go away? It's possible that somehow some configuration file got really broken. Anyway, those are a few possibilities. You probably want to try the easy stuff before doing something as drastic as reinstalling. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
