Does no flashing lights mean a dead network card?

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:32:30AM -0400, Duncan MacGregor wrote

> Just 'Reseat the boards'. 

  I did that.  Now instead of coming up with no error message, but
refusing to work, eth0 errors out at reboot, and ifconfig shows that it
doesn't exist.  And the internal dialup modem has also stopped working.
I think that it's trying to tell me something<g>.

  Yesterday wasn't all doom and gloom, however.  I do have an AMD3000+
that has been patiently waiting in the wings to take over as my main
machine.  Cybersurf had promised to have ADSL functional at my new
address by the end of Friday, Aug 10.  Yesterday (Thursday the 9th) at
around 7:00PM I noticed that the "WAN" light on my ADSL modem was solid
on, instead of blinking.  So I fired up Firfox, and away I went.  3
megabippies; and I can listen to 64 kbits audio streams again... wheee.

  With the network card, and now the internal modem gone, I think it's
time to retire the Dell.  Next month would be its 8th anniversary, and
that is ancient for a PC.  I...
- tarred up /home/waltdnes on the Dell
- copied it over to a 2 gig USB key fob 
- renamed /home/waltdnes on the AMD3000+ to /home/waltdnes.old
- copied the tarball over to the AMD
- untarred it

  I keep the backup machine synced so that it can act as a hot backup,
so all other directories were mostly up to date.  I only had to update
one other directory.  That was a relatively painless switchover.

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