[ale] eth1 silent - up in ifconfig, down on switch.

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Oct 25 10:34:02 EDT 2002


Have you tried a cold reboot?

Sometimes, a 10-15 second loss of power will unlock a "stuck" chip.

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:28, Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> Hi ALE,
> 
> Last night, my second ethernet adapter stopped working.
>  This appeared to happen after a total lock-up and
> reboot (due to mozilla [old version, need to upgrade])
> as best I can narrow the time frame.
> 
> This was the on-board adapter on my motherboard (SIS
> 900 chipset) and was connected to the internal network.
>  ifconfig says the adapter is up; my 5 port  switch
> says it isn't.  I have tried using different ports on
> the switch, switching out the cables, and restarting
> network services.  no luck.
> 
> I am thinking that this is just a simple hardware
> failure.  Concur?  Not sure if it is, in fact, related
> to the ugly reboot, and if so, why.
> 
> I will probably stop by Microcenter and see if they
> still have $8 ethernet cards on my way home from work.  
> 
> Anyone experienced a similar problem?  Any other
> suggestions of things to try before wasting a PCI slot?
> 
> Andrew Grimmke
> Marietta, Georgia
> 
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