[vox-tech] eth0 troubles

[Paul]

Rod Roark wrote:
> On Thursday 12 August 2004 03:04 pm, Karalius, Joseph wrote:
> ...
> 
>>A 'close' visual inspection of the terminals and ports did not reveal any
>>bent or broken pins.
> 
> 
> Then I would guess the adapter or its connector is broken
> internally.  The lack of any LED activity seems pretty
> conclusive to me.  Perhaps you can plug in a PCI NIC?
> 
> -- Rod
>    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
Another $.02 worth.
Because my background is electronics repair, I would have suspected 
hardware much earlier. There is a level shifter chip electrically 
between the onboard ethernet chips and the outside world that could have 
been zapped (static discharge when plugging ethernet cables) that would 
have acted just like a bad cable, connector, etc. Plugging in a *known 
good* card would (will) eliminate a lot of possible malfunctions.

And now I'm waiting for Joseph to get back from frys. Can Joe fix the 
problem and save the world. Wait for the next exciting installment:-)

Paul