[PLUG] Network issues

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 00:51:17 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:32 PM, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Denis Heidtmann
>> <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, jen montserrat
>>> <jen.montserrat at gmail.com> 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
>>> failure occurs again.
>>>
>>> -Denis
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>>
>>
>> Denis,
>> It isn't entirely a surprise that mii-tool fails because I haven't
>> used it in years, I wasn't sure what support it might have or not have
>> with gigabit interfaces, worth a shot though.
>>
>> That said, Mike offered some good suggestions and it looks like the
>> interface does come up and has an IP which leads me to believe perhaps
>> it's a route issue. When it fails can you run /sbin/route -a (I
>> believe that's the correct flag, someone correct me if I'm wrong). And
>> post to the list so we can take a gander at it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Drew-
>
> Keith had suggested route -n earlier, so I tried it:
> When network is broken or functioning it is the same:
> parents at R2D4:~$ sudo route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eth0
>
> I will look into the man pages to see if another option would be better.
>
> -Denis
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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 or too
many errored frames.

I would try the extra NIC. As far as setting it up, shouldn't be too
hard. You should be able to disable on the onboard one in the BIOS. If
not, NetworkManager should let you configure the new one pretty
quickly.

Drew-



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