To test your ethernet card in all os's
You can tell if it is working by simply doing a ping 127.0.0.1
If the packets comeback like 4 sent 4 recieved then it is working fine.
Then it will be an issue with the configuration!
The ping 127.0.0.1 is a internal loopback simulating an connection and then
verifying that is both sending and recieving 4 packets of information to
make sure that
is indeed working.
Bill Preece
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From: "Russell Hires" <rhires@earthlink.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:50 PM
Subject: [SLUG] DSL on different OSes
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> Hello all...
>
> I'm having trouble w/ my Verizon DSL at the moment. Interestingly, when I
> called tech support, they ultimately told me that I have a hardware
problem,
> probably w/ my ethernet card. Okay. I don't believe it, since I can
connect
> to my other Macs via this ethernet card while in the Mac OS, although I
can't
> connect via dhcp to the rest of the world. Part of the troubleshooting
> relating to this included me going to my Mac OS TCP/IP control panel, and
> looking at the IP info that it presents: IP, Subnet, router. Since mine
isn't
> working, I get an IP of 169.254.x.x. The subnet is 255.255.0.0, and no
> router. They tell me that this is an indication that my ethernet card is
> messed up.
>
> What has this to do with Linux? I figure that since I have more tools
> available to me in Linux, I should be able to get this same information
(and
> more), in Linux, but I don't have a clue about how to go about it, beyond
the
> usual ifconfig command, and using a utility like pump.
>
> Anybody got any ideas?
>
> Russell
>
> - --
> Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man
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