lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
I've had woody on a p2-133 for several days now, working fine. Earlier today my xp workstation complained that a network cable got detached. Turns out my debian box can no longer connect with anything on my lan. ping localhost works, otherwise nothing comes in or goes out. the rest of my lan

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 February 2004 11:06 am, Marty Landman wrote: I've had woody on a p2-133 for several days now, working fine. Earlier today my xp workstation complained that a network cable got detached. Turns out my debian box can no longer connect

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:17 PM 2/16/2004, Greg Madden wrote: Ping localhost doesn't use the nic, internal inerface. Ok. Ping something else on your net. Nothing else will ping at all. Bring down the eth(x) interface, remove the module for the nic, modprobe the module and look for error messages. Total newbie

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 February 2004 12:19 pm, Marty Landman wrote: At 03:17 PM 2/16/2004, Greg Madden wrote: Ping localhost doesn't use the nic, internal inerface. Ok. Ping something else on your net. Nothing else will ping at all. Bring down the

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:21 PM 2/16/2004, Greg Madden wrote: Use an xterm window, as root, to execute the commands. No X on my sys, using command line 1. 'ifconfig eth(x) down' 2. 'rmmod tulip' 3. 'modprobe tulip' AFAIK the tulip module is the correct module for the FA310, if modprobe succeeds then it probably

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:19:07 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:21 PM 2/16/2004, Greg Madden wrote: snip Now try to ping another box. Works fine for my lan, get network unreachable when pinging a Net loc, though the name gets resolved. Funny thing is I fixed the identical

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 06:55 PM 2/16/2004, Jacob S. wrote: If you have /etc/network/interfaces setup properly, I've found it easier to simply do an /etc/init.d/networking restart. Yepper, that did it alright. Thanks again Jacob. Half guessing, half remembering the config files I sent you as examples... This

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:29:12 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:55 PM 2/16/2004, Jacob S. wrote: If you have /etc/network/interfaces setup properly, I've found it easier to simply do an /etc/init.d/networking restart. Yepper, that did it alright. Thanks again Jacob.

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:01 PM 2/16/2004, Jacob S. wrote: As for various computers on the network keeping the same ip address, it's not uncommon for a dhcp server to continue giving them the same one You're making me think about it now. I don't know where, or if this can be specified by me to the xp box. (there's

Re: lost nic

2004-02-16 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:23:32 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:01 PM 2/16/2004, Jacob S. wrote: snip (there's a lot that can vary here, but I know a lot of cable internet users that have the same ip for months on end, or even close to a year). I'm thinking that with each