Tom Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > got an ip address from the dhcp server so I tried to browse the web and > it was successful. And it stayed like this for a while. > > Then I tried rebooting the Lombard. If I did an immediate (or nearly > immediate) reboot it came up with networking functioning. If we left it > for a while then networking was not working when it came back up, but > (after intermittently working initially) came back later. > > I'm looking for thoughts as to what might be causing this. The obvious > one is that there is some sort of intermittent disconnection in the > ethernet hardware, or on the motherboard. Can anyone think of any > alternative reasons? > > Oh, my daughter did tell me that there was thunderstorm between the > time it was last working properly and the time when it wasn't. However, > the Lombard was turned off (actually off, not just sleeping) during > that time, although it was connected to the cable modem.
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