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Title: Dead NIC or Mother Board?
Post by: cydonia on December 13, 2004, 07:38:09 AM

Someone i live with accidentily pulled the power cord on my server today, annoying, but usually no big deal.

Anyway, while no errors occurr upon boot, and all services such as dhcpd start ok, none of it works.

When i type in "ifconfig" into the server manager console, it only comes up with the loopback interface.

eth0, eth1 and ppp0 are missing, however, in the server-manager, the server has its normal ip, and there is a WAN IP.


Is there anyway to work out if it is due to dead NICs, or the motherboard itself?

The other thing is that the lights on the NICs are the same as normal.


Thanks.
Tristan

Title: Dead NIC or Mother Board?
Post by: duncan on December 13, 2004, 07:45:31 AM

How about trying either

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service network start or

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service network restart

Title: Dead NIC or Mother Board?
Post by: cydonia on December 13, 2004, 08:36:20 AM

Thanks Duncan, i'm one step closer.  

When i run "service network start", i get something like:

modprobe: error on line 42 /etc/modules.conf.
modprobe: error on line 44 /etc/modules.conf.
modprobe: error on line 46 /etc/modules.conf.
modprobe: error on line 47 /etc/modules.conf.


I know what it is, its because when i expanded a template which had some info in it which it shouldn't have.

Now i just have to revert to the original modules.conf.  Do i just copy the modules.conf from /etc/e-smith/templates/ ?

Thanks.

Title: Dead NIC or Mother Board?
Post by: cydonia on December 13, 2004, 09:37:18 AM

Well, i got it working to a degree.

DHCP seems to be dead though.

However, and sin of sins as it is, i had to modify the original modules.conf file, in /etc/ in order to get it working.

I know this isn't ideal, but clearing all fragments from modules.conf and expanding the templates didn't fix the problem.


All i did was edit out some lines that shouldn't have been in the original from when i expanded a template a few days back.