[Novalug] ethernet has suddenly stopped working

Travis Arnold vestwearingpunk@gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 13:39:27 EST 2009


Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 13:01 -0500, Travis Arnold wrote:
>   
>> Ello all. So after playing around with fedora I have settled on ubuntu 
>> since volume wise I guess that should get the most help online and 
>> such.  In Fedora 9 one day the ethernet suddenly did not work any 
>> longer. The wireless still works and when the machine is booted into 
>> windows the ethernet and wireless both still work. 
>>    The machine is about a 2 year old HP Pavilion dv9000 17in laptop.
>>
>>     Under device manager in windows XP Network adapters lists 3 
>> subsections:
>>
>>          1394 Net Adapter
>>
>>          Intel(r) PRO/1000 PL Network Connection
>>
>>          Intel(r) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
>>
>> I'm not sure which of these is the wired connection and why it would not 
>> be working.  Does anyone know if this is somehow a permenant problem or 
>> can it be fixed?
>>     
>
> Is that an e1000 wired connector?  If so, are you using 2.6.27?  Maybe
> you're hitting the bugs in that driver in that kernel.  It could destroy
> the wired NIC, so distros disabled it when they compiled the kernel.
>
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It could be, I'm not sure which is the wired connection so I listed all 
of them.  the wired connection destroys the NIC- does that mean it does 
not show in say network manager in GNOME?  Thank you for the suggestion 
I shall go back to a previous kernel and see if that makes a difference 
at all.
Trav



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