On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Nick wrote:
> Here is the situation:
> I moved to a place where we have ADSL. My system was configured to use my
> ethernet card but with no proto and the IP of 168.192.0.1 When I moved I
proto?
> switched that to use dhcp and wiped the IP address from netcfg. Everything
> worked like a champ. Then I got dumb.
>
> I found a eth0.OLD in the netcfg interfaces dialoge. So I deleted it. "Why
> should it need it?" was my thought. Well that killed the eth0's connection.
> I restarted it and it worked fine again. Well that was Monday night. When I
> went to check email on Tuesday morning eth0 would not work. I ran down the
> diagnostic this way:
> 1) check to see if eth0 had obtained an IP from the router; it had.
> 2) check to make sure eth0 was sending by watching the pretty little lights
> on the card; they did
> 3) check to make sure the hub is registering the activity to it; it was
> 4) check to see if the router was recieving from the hub; it was. However
> there was no activity lights working on the WAN side of the display on the
> router or on the DSL modem itself.
Was your service provider down?
>
> This all seemed really wierd to me. So figured that the hardware was
> funtioning but maybe configuration was somehow messed up with the eth0. I
Huh? You could talk to the router, but you thought the problem was with
eth0? tsk...
> decided the best thing to do was to reinstall RH 7.1. It was not big thing
SoS lives on in your heart... :)
> because I didn't have anything but a few text docs to backup to disk. I did
> reintstall RH7.1 and the problem didn't go away. I am at a total lose as to
> what to do to fix the problem. I have a Linksys Etherfast 10/100 card and it
> has worked fine in the past and seems to be now.
Maybe it is still working fine.
>
> If anyone could lend a hand I would greatly appreciate it. I don't want to
> go back to having to use Windows (SoS - Software of Shame). I am using dial
> up through the college right now so I will check email once or twice a day or
> if anyone is ambitious and would not mind giving me a ring at 530-297-1750 I
> would be indebted.
You seem to be on the modem... :)
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