[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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