Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-26 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 26 Sep 2004 1:52 am, Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 03:37 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: | I think Which was told off and had to publish a retraction not so | long ago for publicly giving that bit of advice. | | Some things to bear in mind: | 1. If there's an earth

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-26 Thread Sean Pritchard
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:37:13 +0100, Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 25 Sep 2004 4:55 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 07:33 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: | But for all the *newbies* here reading this, statically wounded | circuits can show weird symptoms

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 25 September 2004 19:52, Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 03:37 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: | I think Which was told off and had to publish a retraction not so | long ago for publicly giving that bit of advice. | | Some things to bear in mind: | 1. If there's an

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread John Wilson
On September 25, 2004 07:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: MAC addresses are at hardware level; if the MAC address has changed, consider disabling the card in BIOS and driving out to Greenville or Pikeville for a new 10/100 card...

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 11:29 am, John Wilson wrote: Out of nothing, at this point and keeping fingers crossed, did you check to see if the phantom MAC address on your son's card was duplicated in one of the other cards on your LAN? snip Thanks for the reply, John. Actually, I did - I

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 25 September 2004 07:33 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: | | But for all the *newbies* here reading this, statically wounded circuits | can show weird symptoms months after installation. Sometimes weird | stuff like what Ron is seeing. That includes (especially) | motherboards. It's best to

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 25 September 2004 17:55, Erylon Hines wrote: attach yourself to the metal part of the case, and you are good to go. I had some wonderful shocking experiences doing so whilst forgetting to disconnect the plugged-in monitor. The world's a dangerous place full of unexpected pitfalls,

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 25 Sep 2004 4:55 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 07:33 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: | But for all the *newbies* here reading this, statically wounded | circuits can show weird symptoms months after installation. | Sometimes weird stuff like what Ron is seeing.

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 25 September 2004 03:37 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: | I think Which was told off and had to publish a retraction not so long | ago for publicly giving that bit of advice. | | Some things to bear in mind: | 1. If there's an earth fault the live wire is connected to you. | 2. The switch is

[newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, all of a sudden my 13 year olds comp refuses to get on the Internet. This is a system loaded with v9.2 (download editon) of Mandrake. I've got cablemodem service, with a DLink router. I've always used static ip addresses and MAC addresses assigned to each comp on the Lan. My 13 year olds

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 11:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, all of a sudden my 13 year olds comp refuses to get on the Internet. This is a system loaded with v9.2 (download editon) of Mandrake. I've got cablemodem service, with a DLink router. I've always used static ip addresses and MAC

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:57 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: ...and I'm sure you checked the GATEWAY= bit, too, yeah? ...and the /etc/resolv.conf ? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Hey Stephen. Thanks for the reply. Yep, sure did - all appears to be normal. Its very odd, this. --

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 12:17, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 24 September 2004 09:57 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: ...and I'm sure you checked the GATEWAY= bit, too, yeah? ...and the /etc/resolv.conf ? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Hey Stephen. Thanks for the reply. Yep, sure did - all

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 21:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, all of a sudden my 13 year olds comp refuses to get on the Internet. This is a system loaded with v9.2 (download editon) of Mandrake. I've got cablemodem service, with a DLink router. I've always used static ip addresses and MAC

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:12 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: Yep, sure did - all appears to be normal. Its very odd, this. Ethernet card is bad. -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Thought about that possibility - that would explain the hardware (MAC) address changing on its own maybe? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Does he have onboard 10/100 and is it a Broadcomm chip? Seems I remember reading that the mac addresses for onboard stuff could be changed...somewhere. I thought it interesting at the time but right now I can't remember exactly