Ethernet not working, a weird one!

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

     Yes, we got a direct lightning hit. The hit came in on our ham radio 
tower. We're not that much into ham radio any more, so there is now one less 
ham radio tower in the world. We do have surge protectors and computers are 
on UPS's, as is our router and cable modem. The cable line is hooked up to 
the UPS, where it then goes to the modem. All of that didn't help. It burned 
up the actual cable. Not cable modem, that was fine... actual cable. A few 
of our neighbors lost cable, also lost routers. One guy had his car parked 
nearby. It melted his fuse box and destroyed his GPS.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Ethernet not working, a weird one!


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> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:47:18PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>     On June 18, lightning struck our home.
>
> Wow, do you mean that literally? If you mean that lightning struck your
> power/phone lines, then I'd strongly suggest investing in a surge
> protector, one with protection for both power and phone, and hook up
> your pc to it, including network hub/switch, and dsl/dial-up modems to
> the phone line through the protector. If you have cable, then there
> are surge protectors that also have coax jacks.
>
>> What could this be?
>
> If the card shows up in lspci, and you have the driver for it loaded,
> it should also show up in dmesg. So, what does dmesg have to say? I'd
> say you might have a udev issue somewhere, though that's just a
> guess. Also, are you sure that the card isn't in fact recognized? It
> could be recognized, but assigned a different interface, like eth1
> instead of eth0. If that's the case, then that's a udev rule issue. To
> answer your other question in another post, no, if you have the driver
> built into the kernel, then there are no modules to load.
>
>>     If I end up having to rebuild from scratch, what is a currently good
>> distro for console only, no GUI Linux that supports Speakup? If I were
>> rebuilding anyway, I would strongly consider switching from Gentoo to an
>> easier to maintain distro.
>
> I'd recommend debian myself.
>
> Greg
>
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