No Network - [SOLVED]

[Darren]

Darren wrote:
> William Stephens wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 18:14 +1030, Darren wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi Guys,
>>> This afternoon I had to turn off my Ubuntu 6.10 Server, all went well 
>>> and normal but since booting the machine backup I am unable to see 
>>> anything on my network and I am unable to connect to any of the services 
>>> (ssh, samba, squid or apache) from any of the other machines on the network.
>>>     
>>
>>   
>>> I am using static IP's...
>>>     
>>
>> I gave up using static setups after breaking my machine multiple times
>> trying to figure out why and to stop resolv.conf from being erased at
>> reboots. May not be your problem but I'd look into it.
>>
>> William S.
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>>   
> Thanks for the suggestions Jeffrey and William.
>
> I downloaded Knoppix earlier this morning and gave it a try to no 
> avail either using static or DHCP, I'm beginning to think it's perhaps 
> the nic itself, stranger things have happened.
>
> I'm going to put in another nic now and see what happens as I'm at a 
> loss as to what happens.
>
> I'll report back shortly.
Very interesting and I feel somewhat of a twit now, after going through 
everything that I could think of I setup DHCP and tested with 1 other 
linux machine and 1 windows which worked fine, I put in another hard 
drive and fired up the Ubuntu setup as I go through I was unable to get 
an IP address even with functioning network card and cable so I reset 
the Minitar gigabit switch and all came to life which doesn't make sense 
since I tried different ports in the 'trial and error' mode.

I'll certainly put this down to a learning experience that's for sure :)

Cheers
Darren