On 03/24/2011 04:37 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
I'm not sure it's broken.
Realtek is known to have somewhat crappy NICs that can tend to lock up
in a "middle state" if a driver probe comes too fast, and then they
dont react to any link or driver loading anymore.
One way that might help is to power off the computer, disconnect it
from power _and_ disconnect the network cables, wait a few minutes,
connect everything again and try again.
OK. I *did* try a cold boot, but I didn't go quite that far. I'll try
this, but probably not till Monday. Odd, though, that I've never had a
whisper of trouble from this NIC in the years since I built this
machine. Thanks for the suggestion.
