Re: Reinstallation vs. Fixing network problem

[David O Torrey <tj@xxxxxxx>]

I had a similar experience (though with audio drivers, which may be of
use to sgelliot).  I converted my wife's machine to Linux-only, but it
required a hard power-down reset to actually clear up the problems. 
Best guess is that Windows left the audio system in some wierd state.

Works fine since, but hung up the first few times until I powered it
down (meaning, unplug it too -- ATX, remember).  At any rate, I highly
doubt the problem is with Debian itself, and would stop just short of
staking my life on the claim that reinstalling won't make a diff of
bitterence.

Dave


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 13:06, Jacob Fugal wrote:
> Oops. No, I mean I notice no problems with my windows networking. That is,
> DNS, subnet, internet, http, and all that works just fine with windows. I
> can't so much as ping anything in my subnet under Debian right now.
> 
> Jacob Fugal
> jpfugal@xxxxxxx
> 
> > When you say that it works well enough to post this, it sounds like
> > you're implying that there are problems with networking in Windows too.
> >   If this is the case, it sounds like a bad network card/cable.
> >
> > Are you being assigned an IP address in Debian?
> >
> > On Mar 10, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Jacob Fugal wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a dual boot Windows XP Pro/Debian "sarge" machine. The network
> >> under Debian used to work just fine. Then my wife restarted the machine
> >> during Debian bootup because she wanted Windows. (I can only guess that
> >> that was the cause of the problem.) Now I can ping my own machine but
> >> not
> >> the gateway or any other machine under Debian. Windows networking works
> >> well enough for me to post this. I tried unloading and loading the
> >> network
> >> module (using modprobe), ifdown and ifup the interface, I even tried
> >> recovery mode. When I run ifconfig, it shows that both eth0 and lo
> >> have Tx
> >> and Rx errors that increase every time I try to ping anything other
> >> than
> >> my own machine. Further, when I type ifup eth0, it replies "eth0: link
> >> down" when clearly the link is up and running just fine.
> >>
> >> The only way I can think of fixing this problem is a new install of
> >> Debian.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on what the problem is or how to fix the networking under
> >> Debian
> >> short of reformat and reinstallation? I'd appreciate it.
> >>
> >> Jacob Fugal
> >> jpfugal@xxxxxxx
> >>
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