eric23:
> I am not sure what is happening to the wired connection. Maybe my hardware
is just failing. In Trisquel 8 the lights blink on, but I can't connect
anymore. In Trisquel 9 upon entering boot up of the kernel the lights stop I
think.
Have you tried making some boot USBs of other distros and testing the wired
network connection on them? If you test on a number of OS and can't get a
wired connection on any of them, there's a good chance that either your NIC
card, the jack, or the cable is failing.
