[nmglug] ifup eth0

[Nick Frost]

On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:15 PM, akaluta wrote:

> Nick;
> Thank Your for your interest and response,since my last  
> communication I
> tried lots of things including pulling out my hair.
> I did finally stumble upon the solution.The wired network plug does  
> not
> seat well in the computer jack (RJ45) and must be teased to connect.

Hi Anthony;

Ah! Ok, that makes sense.  I had a similar problem a few years ago  
with a machine in Albuquerque.  I couldn't resolve the issue on the  
phone and so drove down there to have a look myself. What I did was  
take some surgical tweezers (very thin, made in Germany) and re-bent  
the affected pin in the network jack such that the intermittent  
network problem was resolved.  The 8P8C receptacles usually are good  
for thousands of insertions, but I have seen cases where a wire will  
pop out of the slot or become bent/recessed in relation to the other  
conductors and cause intermittency.  The other option is to install a  
fresh NIC in a PCI slot and use that instead; if the physical  
interface on the motherboard has deteriorated to the point where it's  
causing connectivity problems.   (I assume you tested another Ethernet  
cable and made sure it was the computer jack and not the cable itself?)

(I think the last time I saw you was some years ago at the annual  
NNMARC dinner at Rancho de Chimayo....before the fire).  See you at a  
future LUG gathering and best wishes,

-Nick

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