[Hoary] ADSL connection stops working after 2.5 hours of uptime

James Wilkinson ubuntu at westexe.demon.co.uk
Wed May 18 00:42:38 UTC 2005


Ari Torhamo wrote:
> He's, as mine, connection uses DHCP and the IP and gateway addresses
> don't appear in the properties window (at least I think DHCP is the
> reason). Is there another way to find out those addresses? 

Run ifconfig.

> The ethernet card is embedded into the motherboard. The motherboard is
> ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and it has two LAN ports. The other one is 
> 
> Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit Lan PCI 
> 
> and the other
> 
> MCP-T integrated NVIDIA MAC + Realtek 8201BL PHY
> 
> Sorry again, I can't ask him right now to find out which one is at use.
> Anyway it's the one that was picked by the installer.

Well, that's good news. If it turns out to be the network card, he's got
a spare one ready to use...

James.

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