Does no flashing lights mean a dead network card?

[Duncan MacGregor]

Take the NIC card out, and put it back in. Try it again.

Just 'Reseat the boards'. 
I suppose the problem could be oxide build up on the board's physical 
connection to the bus.

Try it with a live CD. A small linux distribution should work fine with this 
machine. DSL (damn small linux) should work well. You might get by with 
Ubuntu.

Dunc

On August 8, 2007 11:58:52 pm Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I've been looking for an excuse to get rid of my 1999 Dell, all 128
> megs of RAM and 450 mhz PIII.  I just moved, and I find that the network
> cardi lights do not flash at all.  I believe that implies dead hardware.
> I think this is co-incidence.  A knock during the move hard enough to
> break the network card should've wreaked havoc with the rest of the
> machine.  It works OK, except for the dead network card, which means no
> ADSL; did I ever mention that dialup is a pain?
>
>   I decided some time ago that when parts start needing to be replaced,
> I should get rid of it.  Does no flashing lights mean dead a physically
> dead card?  The weird part is that dmesg doesn't complain, and ifconfig
> shows eth0 present and looking OK, but I can't even ping my ADSL modem.



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