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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject: route not found...

i'm hardly ever at my apartment, maybe three or four consecutive days every two or three weeks. but i like to keep two of my computers running folding while i'm gone and log onto them periodically from wherever else i am.

i got home last night and my desktop was (seemingly) frozen. i restart it, but i can't get a network connection. its using a via rhine II that's built in to the motherboard. the lights are blinking, and linux sees the card fine, but DHCP won't grab an address and manual configuration can't find routes.

go over to the router (buffalo 802.11g wireless, 4-port), no matter which port i plug it into the light on the router is not blinking. i have a bsd box plugged into another port which is working fine (static IP, i think). the bsd box has been plugged into several different ports as well, and it has no problems with any of them.

my laptop connects wirelessly through the same router, without any problems.

i'd say its a problem with the nic on my desktop, but the router's WAN light isn't reflecting WAN traffic like it normally does either. IIRC, it would blink at about the same rate and pattern as the cablem modem's light. now the WAN light on the router just pulse on and off slowly.

any ideas? i'm going to try a pci nic tomorrow, but thought someone might have another suggestion in the interim.

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:26 am Post subject:

You said you switched around the ports, but did you try a different cable?
Probably a stupid suggestion, but I'll pretend to know what I'm talking about Wink Smile

Oh, reboot the router if you haven't tried that.

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:06 pm Post subject:

i put in a pci nic, and it seems to be working A-OK. bummer that the onboard is gone, guess i'll have to get the riser card if ever decide to put that mobo in a 2U case Sad