[Wylug-help] Starting a network connection

[john at bopa.co.uk]

It seems like a hardware fault to me. I don't see any light on my router when I connect a cable between the laptop and the router - I've tried two different cables  which are known to work. So it looks as though the LAN port is either faulty or disabled in some way. ifconfig eth0 looks fine. Is there anything else I can run to perform a diagnostic test?



Jim Jackson <jj at franjam.org.uk> wrote ..
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> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 john at bopa.co.uk wrote:
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> > I've run ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 but can't ping
> > anything else on the network.
> 
> Are you trying to ping by name or IP address? If you've tried by name,
> try
> by IP address. It _might_ be that your /etc/resolv.conf file doesn't
> contain a valid name server, and/or your /etc/hosts file does not have
> local lan entries or similar.