[ale] nc100 problems

[John Wells]

You were exactly right.  The initial card was actually bad...but the second
problem was related to a bad cable.

Thanks to everyone for the help!!!

John


---------  Original message --------
From: James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>
CC: Joseph A Knapka <jknapka at earthlink.net>, Atlanta Linux  User Group
(E-mail) <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] nc100 problems
Date: 04-29-02 00:06

> I would be much more suspicious of the network cable than the card.
Mostcards won't light up unless there is an electrically good link toanother
machine. If you have a meter, check for connectivity. The endsof the cable
are identical for straight through cables so the shouldshow a connection pin
to pin but not cross pins (i.e. leftmost toleftmost connected, etc.)On Sun,
2002-04-28 at 15:11, John Wells wrote:&gt; Hmmm...&gt; &gt; This has got me
worried.  Went to Microcenter and exchanged.  Came back and&gt; dropped the
new card in....no lights.  Dropped the card that had lights at&gt; one time
in....no lights anymore.&gt; &gt; &gt; Dropped the card in another, albeit
unstable machine....no lights.  Is it&gt; possible the first machine was
somehow damaging these cards?&gt; &gt; Thanks,&gt; &gt; John&gt; &gt;
---------  Original message --------&gt; From: Joseph A Knapka
&lt;jknapka at earthlink.net&gt;&gt; To: John Wells
&lt;jb at sourceillustrated.com&gt;&gt; CC: ale at ale.org&gt; Subject: Re: [ale]
nc100 problems&gt; Date: 04-28-02 21:02&gt; &gt; &gt; John Wells wrote:&gt;
&amp;gt;&gt; &amp;gt; Just installed my new Linksys nc100 into an old box. 
Booted up&gt; smoothwall&gt; &amp;gt; and smoothwall recognized the card was
attached and loaded the tulip&gt; driver.&gt; &amp;gt;&gt; &amp;gt; I can
cat /proc/pci and see the cards (also lspci -v).  It's up,&gt;
configured&gt; &amp;gt; on the same net and subnet as my private network. 
However, no lights&gt; on the&gt; &amp;gt; card and I can't ping anything
(get &amp;quot;Destination Host&gt; Unreachable&amp;quot; errors).&gt;
&amp;gt; I think it might have something to do with my BIOS settings, but
it&gt; seems&gt; &amp;gt; strange that I could see it in /proc/pci if it
were.&gt; &gt; No lights on the card probably indicates a hardware&gt;
problem. Check that the card is seated properly.&gt; I had virtually
identical symptoms a couple days ago&gt; with a DLink card that wasn't
pushed all the way&gt; into the PCI slot - the card was detected, but&gt;
wouldn't talk, and the link light would not come&gt; on.&gt; &gt;
Cheers,&gt; &gt; -- Joe&gt; Using open-source software: free.&gt; Pissing
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