motherboard ethernet port failing

[William Park]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:51:02PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> - (eventually) was able to get this same computer to work with a USB
>   ethernet adapter and the same cable and same switch port
...
> >From my observations, I think that it is a hardware problem on the
> motherboard.  It could just be the connector.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea of what's likely going on and whether it
> might be something easily fixed?
> 
> Any suggestions for experiments?
> 
> (I don't want to break the machine: it is a "production" MythTV box.
> The USB interface solution is OK.  The box doesn't have any available
> PCI or PCIe slots.)

If USB-to-Ethernet adapter is working, why not keep that as is?

I was going to suggest get a ethernet card, but no slot.  Time to swap
the motherboard?
-- 
William
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