Broken network hdw/softw

[David G. Miller]

David Highley <dhighley <at> highley-recommended.com> writes:

> 
> After power cycle on system the line drivers for the network interface
> seemed to die, no link connection and no light. This is a mother board
> interface and dmesg still shows hardware discovery.
> 
> Bought a PCI Express card and installed it. Then modified the mac
> address in the /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-xxxx file. Still
> no joy. Noticed that the dev name changed so I move the file to match
> the new dev name and edited the device name in the file.
> 
> Still no joy. 
<SNIP>
Silly question but are you showing link lights with the PCI card?  If you are,
can you move the network connection to a different port on your switch and try
again?  Also, while you're there, verify that the lights on the switch are what
you expect.

Cheers,
Dave