Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-31 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Steve D... wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Steve D... wrote: >> Do you see this as an accurate assessment? >>> >>> Pretty much...  Your available choices are: >>> >>> 1) Deal with it...

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-25 Thread Steve D...
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Steve D... wrote: > >>> Do you see this as an accurate assessment? >> >> Pretty much...  Your available choices are: >> >> 1) Deal with it... You many have to "ifconfig up" your eth port from >> time to ti

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-25 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Steve D... wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: >> >> Thanks for all the information.  You have saved me from a fruitless >> bunch of tests.  I do not claim to have gotten my head around all the >> stuff in those links, but I have th

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-25 Thread Steve D...
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > Thanks for all the information.  You have saved me from a fruitless > bunch of tests.  I do not claim to have gotten my head around all the > stuff in those links, but I have the impression that if the NIC is > misbehaving during the auto

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-24 Thread Mike Connors
Denis Heidtmann wrote: > The connection has not had a failure for some days now (many shutdowns > and reboots, but no interruption of power to the modem or the > computer), even though renegotiation is likely happening often. Also, > when failure occurs the only thing which appears to fix it is to

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-23 Thread Mike Connors
Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Thanks for all the information. You have saved me from a fruitless > bunch of tests. I do not claim to have gotten my head around all the > stuff in those links, but I have the impression that if the NIC is > misbehaving during the autonegotiation process I have no reason

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-23 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Steve D... wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Mike Connors wrote: >> Denis Heidtmann wrote: >>> I am glad you have focused on this.  Since it is the only thing I have >>> found which is consistently different between failed and working >>> modes, it deserv

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-23 Thread Steve D...
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> I am glad you have focused on this.  Since it is the only thing I have >> found which is consistently different between failed and working >> modes, it deserves some scrutiny.  I think it is interesting that the >> un

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> I am glad you have focused on this.  Since it is the only thing I have >> found which is consistently different between failed and working >> modes, it deserves some scrutiny.  I think it is interesting that the >> un

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Connors
Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I am glad you have focused on this. Since it is the only thing I have > found which is consistently different between failed and working > modes, it deserves some scrutiny. I think it is interesting that the > unused capability (1000baseT) is what is missing when in the f

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> Don't jump to conclusions based upon a novice like me reading a >> script!  There could be stuff in there that I missed. >> >> It sounds like the consensus here is that to duplicate what happens to >> the network duri

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Connors
Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Don't jump to conclusions based upon a novice like me reading a > script! There could be stuff in there that I missed. > > It sounds like the consensus here is that to duplicate what happens to > the network during boot I would need to [remove the driver (rmmod), > restart

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
Don't jump to conclusions based upon a novice like me reading a script! There could be stuff in there that I missed. It sounds like the consensus here is that to duplicate what happens to the network during boot I would need to [remove the driver (rmmod), restart the network( ifup?) , ping ], rep

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Connors
Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > >>> (BTW, my system has no such command as "network"). >>> >>> -Denis >>> >>> >> /etc/init.d/networking >> Usage: /etc/init.d/networking {start|stop} >> > > Mike, > Looking at the script "networking"

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > >>   (BTW, my system has no such command as "network"). >> >> -Denis >> >  /etc/init.d/networking > Usage: /etc/init.d/networking {start|stop} Mike, Looking at the script "networking" it seems that all it does, after checking for network mou

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Larry Brigman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM, drew wymore wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Denis Heidtmann >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Steve D... wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrot

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Connors
> (BTW, my system has no such command as "network"). > > -Denis > /etc/init.d/networking Usage: /etc/init.d/networking {start|stop} ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread drew wymore
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM, drew wymore wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Denis Heidtmann >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Steve D... wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrot

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM, drew wymore wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Steve D... wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann >>> wrote: I had previously posted this: 00:0a.0 Ethernet

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Mike Connors
Denis Heidtmann wrote: > It occurred to me that since the machine supports wake-on-lan, that as > long as there is power to the box the network "card" must be active. > This could explain why a change in state only occurs through a > power-off cycle. Does this help? My fav part of the output from

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread drew wymore
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Steve D... wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann >> wrote: >>> >>> I had previously posted this: >>> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] >>> Etherne

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Steve D... wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: >> >> I had previously posted this: >> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] >> Ethernet (rev a2) >>        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82f2

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-21 Thread Steve D...
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > I had previously posted this: > 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] > Ethernet (rev a2) >        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82f2 >        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IR

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread drew wymore
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Larry Brigman > wrote: > >> >> If you are seeing the list of negotiation rates drop in failed mode >> then to be able to >> check this while the system is up will require the network to be down >> an

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Larry Brigman wrote: > > If you are seeing the list of negotiation rates drop in failed mode > then to be able to > check this while the system is up will require the network to be down > and at least the associated > network driver for the card to be rmmod to

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Larry Brigman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Mike Connors wrote: >> drew wymore wrote: >>> I think route -n is what I was thinking of. So disregard what I wrote. >>> Ok .. so next thing I'm thinking of is that the PK5000 according to >>> the docs I pu

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > drew wymore wrote: >> I think route -n is what I was thinking of. So disregard what I wrote. >> Ok .. so next thing I'm thinking of is that the PK5000 according to >> the docs I pulled up is 10/100BaseT and since you have a Gigabit NIC, >> I'm

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Larry Brigman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:32 PM, drew wymore wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, jen montserrat >> wrote: >>> Have you tried using another patch cable, just to rule out the possibility >>> of it being the network cable?  If this

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Mike Connors
drew wymore wrote: > I think route -n is what I was thinking of. So disregard what I wrote. > Ok .. so next thing I'm thinking of is that the PK5000 according to > the docs I pulled up is 10/100BaseT and since you have a Gigabit NIC, > I'm starting to lean towards a negotiation error of some sort o

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread drew wymore
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:32 PM, drew wymore wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Denis Heidtmann >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, jen montserrat >>> wrote: Have you tried using another patch cable, just to rule

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:32 PM, drew wymore wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, jen montserrat >> wrote: >>> Have you tried using another patch cable, just to rule out the possibility >>> of it being the network cable?  If this

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread drew wymore
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, jen montserrat > wrote: >> Have you tried using another patch cable, just to rule out the possibility >> of it being the network cable?  If this is a wireless interface, please >> ignore this post > > I hav

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, jen montserrat wrote: > Have you tried using another patch cable, just to rule out the possibility > of it being the network cable?  If this is a wireless interface, please > ignore this post I have tried two different cables. I intend to try a third when the fai

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread jen montserrat
Have you tried using another patch cable, just to rule out the possibility of it being the network cable? If this is a wireless interface, please ignore this post On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > > drew wymore wro

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mike Connors wrote: > drew wymore wrote: >> Would love to try what you suggest, except I do not understand.  Is >> this something that I can do when the network is in the failed state? > Okay, so let me see if I got this straight? Networking only fails upon > bootu

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:22 AM, drew wymore wrote: > I'm not home right now to check. But Google mii-tool. Try it when the > network barfs > Nice idea, but: sudo mii-tool -v SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported no MII interfaces found According to the man page I think this me

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Mike Connors
drew wymore wrote: > Would love to try what you suggest, except I do not understand. Is > this something that I can do when the network is in the failed state? Okay, so let me see if I got this straight? Networking only fails upon bootup and when it doesn't work you can't ping the router and you

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread drew wymore
I'm not home right now to check. But Google mii-tool. Try it when the network barfs On Jan 20, 2010 10:15 AM, "Denis Heidtmann" wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:02 AM, drew wymore wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 ... Would love to try what you suggest, except I do not understand. Is this somethi

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Larry Williams wrote: > Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> The only observation I can report is >> that when the network is up ethtool eth0 has an entry "1000baseT/Full" >> under "Advertised link modes" that is absent when the network is down. >> > Have you tried a differe

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:02 AM, drew wymore wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Denis Heidtmann > wrote: >>  My network problem continues. Here is as concise a description as I can >> muster: >> >> 1) New PK5000 Quest DSL router cabled to my desktop, my only computer. >> 2) Typically I p

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Larry Williams
Denis Heidtmann wrote: > The only observation I can report is > that when the network is up ethtool eth0 has an entry "1000baseT/Full" > under "Advertised link modes" that is absent when the network is down. > Have you tried a different computer, or at least a different NIC?

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread drew wymore
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >  My network problem continues. Here is as concise a description as I can > muster: > > 1) New PK5000 Quest DSL router cabled to my desktop, my only computer. > 2) Typically I power both the router and the desktop down and up a few > times

[PLUG] Network issues

2010-01-20 Thread Denis Heidtmann
My network problem continues. Here is as concise a description as I can muster: 1) New PK5000 Quest DSL router cabled to my desktop, my only computer. 2) Typically I power both the router and the desktop down and up a few times a day. 3) Failure means that pings to the router at 192.168.0.1 go un

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-20 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:29, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Network Manager has always been a PITA. I went to wicd because the NM > GUI could never find any of the available networks. Maybe once in a > while it would drop down a list. Usually I had to go to the command > line to scan and then conne

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:42:51 -0700 "chris (fool) mccraw" dijo: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 23:52, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > The reason I need the GUI is to be able to find wireless networks when > > I am away from home, select one, and connect to it. It is far faster to > > do so from the GU

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-20 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 23:52, John Jason Jordan wrote: > The reason I need the GUI is to be able to find wireless networks when > I am away from home, select one, and connect to it. It is far faster to > do so from the GUI (assuming I can get it to work) than from the > command line. Furthermore

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:29:03 -0700 Larry W dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Ubuntu, does anyone know a command to launch Network Manager? > ... > > I have lost the GUI launcher, but I can't recreate it until I can > > figure out what the app is called. > > I think you're looking for ne

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-19 Thread Bill Barry
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:52 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:17:48 -0700 > Bill Barry dijo: > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM, John Jason Jordan >wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:05:01 -0700 > > > Bill Barry dijo: > > > > > > > > This is not the first time I h

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-19 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:17:48 -0700 Bill Barry dijo: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:05:01 -0700 > > Bill Barry dijo: > > > > > > This is not the first time I have tried to figure out how to launch an > > > > app from the command line. Ma

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-19 Thread Bill Barry
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:05:01 -0700 > Bill Barry dijo: > > > > This is not the first time I have tried to figure out how to launch an > > > app from the command line. Maybe there is a command I can use to find > > > the launch term for a

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-19 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:05:01 -0700 Bill Barry dijo: > > This is not the first time I have tried to figure out how to launch an > > app from the command line. Maybe there is a command I can use to find > > the launch term for all installed packages? Or hopefully can be used > > with grep or someth

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-19 Thread Larry W
John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Ubuntu, does anyone know a command to launch Network Manager? ... > I have lost the GUI launcher, but I can't recreate it until I can > figure out what the app is called. I think you're looking for network-admin, part of the gnome-network-admin package. Assuming

Re: [PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-19 Thread Bill Barry
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:56 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Ubuntu, does anyone know a command to launch Network Manager? > > According to Synaptic the package that is installed is > "network-manager," but that gives a "not found" error message at the > command line. > > I have lost the GUI lau

[PLUG] Network issues

2009-04-19 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Ubuntu, does anyone know a command to launch Network Manager? According to Synaptic the package that is installed is "network-manager," but that gives a "not found" error message at the command line. I have lost the GUI launcher, but I can't recreate it until I can figure out what the app is c