[wplug] Network problems

[Chris Romano]

On 8/30/05, Poyner, Brandon <bpoyner at ccac.edu> wrote:

> > Link detected: no
> >
> > # arp -an
> > #
> >
> > Bare in mind, that I am hand typing this in.
> > Without a net connection, burner, or floppy, I
> > don't know how to bring the data over.
> 
> Huh, 'arp -an' shouldn't return nothing, the system should always list
> the mac addresses of all local IP configured ethernet interfaces. That
> coupled with the no link detected makes me think the problem might be at
> the hardware level. I don't think you want to type in the results, but
> does 'lspci -vvx' tell you anything useful about the ethernet
> controllers? Also what does /var/log/dmesg have to say about the
> ethernet interfaces?

  Well, from lspci -vx (there is no "w" option) ... it says that it's a 
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02).
This is what dmesg has to say about it ...
eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2002 PHY(5704)] ...
 It seems like they are seeing the same card.
 Thanks,
Chris
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