[SLUG] Related / unrelated to the sound problem

[Martin Webb]

john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>>     
>>> Ping: Network is unreachable, apparently. I'm just about to have a
>>> bash at  that.
>>>       
>> And what does ifconfig have to say about everything?
>>     
>
> It looks about right, maybe a tad weird. There are the normal two
> paragraphs, local and eth0. Whereas local has an inet address
> 127.0.0.1 and an inet6 one, etho0 only has inet6 and on the next line
> says "UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST". No idea if that's
> significant, otherwise, no errors showing, Ethernet, there's a MAC
> address, etc.
>
>   
>> And is the network interface enabled in the network section of your
>> system administration?
>>     
>
> Hmmm, in network tools I can see eth0 with hardware address 'not
> available' and nothing transmitted or received.
>
> Weird, I just can't think what I've changed to make the network fall
> off like this.
>
> YAST recognises the interface, runs through everything OK, it's all
> set up to DHCP, etc.
>
> I may reset the router as advised by Linksys and see whether it's got
> itself in a mess. Otherwise, I'll throw in a new network card and see
> if I can get that to work.
If all else fails (and sometimes it does) - you've pulled the power plug 
on the router and counted up to 5 mins (not because the router needs 
that long, but because the ISP's machinery takes that long to register 
that you've pulled the plug - can take longer) - you've seen that all 
the little lights are lit up on the router, and that it has an ADSL 
connection - you've rebooted the PC ("service network restart" from the 
command prompt is also worth a try - took me months to work that one 
out) - and still there's no connection - try, in the router interface, 
lowering the MTU (maximum transmission unit) from 1500 to 1450, or 1450 
to 1400.  I've had two clients where that was the problem.  If that has 
no effect either, put it back to where it was before.  In the dozen or 
so networks I look after, with there multiple PCs, I've not yet had a 
NIC go down (although there's always a first time).
Martin