On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:20 +1000, Elliott-Brennan wrote: > Hi, > > After running modprobe aiptek (as root) and then lsmod (as root), and > nothing else, I have lost net connection and connection to my server > (home network).
It is highly unlikely that loading those modules directly caused your net connection to stop working. > > I've tried to reset the net connection be deleting the old one and > installing a new one and then rebooting (it says to restart X but I > don't know any other way :( > > My box is behind a smoothwall, and I can connect to the net with my win2 > machine? > > Ifconfig gives me > > Etho: linx encap: Ethernet Hwaddr 00.90.27.58.5D.83 > Inet addr: 192.168.0.198 and a mask that fits with the one I know I use. > 255 255 255 0 > Inet 6 addr fe80 :: 290:27ff:fe58:58d83/64 scope: link > Up broadcast running multicast mtu:1500 metric: 1 > RX packets 7 errors and the rest are 0 > TX packets 6 and the rest 0 > Collisions and txqueluelen are 0 and 1000 respectively Well, that all looks sane. What does 'route -n' give you? Just to rule out any firewall problems, try stopping smoothwall and see if you get net connection back. If you're convinced that the tablet modules had something to do with it, then try rebooting without your tablet plugged in. James. -- James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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