How to remove a damaged Wired Connection

Chas IRONS ironscf at telkomsa.net
Sun Sep 4 05:31:26 UTC 2016


On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 13:29 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 2 September 2016 at 12:37, Chas IRONS <ironscf at telkomsa.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 08:04 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > 
> > On 2 September 2016 at 07:12, Chas IRONS <ironscf at telkomsa.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > My wireless router DWR-730 would not switch off last night, so it
> > was on
> > this morning for me to run ifconfig -a
> > 
> > The result was:
> > chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
> > [sudo] password for chas:
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:c3:7b:6a:c5:ea
> >           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> > 
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:1500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:1500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
> >           RX bytes:111216 (111.2 KB)  TX bytes:111216 (111.2 KB)
> > 
> > chas at Charles-PC:~$
> > 
> > You see there is no entry for eth1 at all.
> > I checked Menu bar/ Edit Connections and the entry is present and
> > seems
> > correct.
> > So why is it not connected; just greyed out "Ethernet
> > disconnected"?
> > Then tried to reboot the router that showed: Firefox can't
> > establish a
> > connection to the server at 192.168.0.1.
> > Physically switched off the router and on again so it rebooted and
> > connected
> > perfectly.
> > 
> > *****************
> > 
> > What do you mean it would not switch off?  If the router is
> > behaving
> > strangely then possibly it is the router that is faulty.
> > 
> > Colin
> > 
> > ********************
> > Hi Colin
> > My router probably does behave strangely but I don't know enough to
> > diagnose
> > and my ISP is also unresponsive. I am waiting for installation of
> > fibre
> > telecomms in a month or two before moving on.
> > 
> > The DWR-730 has two buttons on the side. The top switch usually
> > powers down
> > with "BYE" message. Sometimes there is no response at all, so it
> > stays on
> > overnight.
> > You probably think I should leave the router on always; but I don't
> > like it
> > being available for baddies in other time zones to target it. I
> > live in +2
> > zone.
> What happens if you startup the PC, restart the router so everything
> is working, then immediately reboot the PC?
> 
> Colin
***************
Hi again Colin,
As you suggested above I started the PC & ran ifconfig:
chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
[sudo] password for chas: 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:c3:7b:6a:c5:ea  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1700 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1700 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 
          RX bytes:125976 (125.9 KB)  TX bytes:125976 (125.9 KB)
******************
Then started the router & ran ifconfig:
chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:c3:7b:6a:c5:ea  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3c:1e:04:96:54:05  
          inet
addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3e1e:4ff:fe96:5405/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: fc00::3e1e:4ff:fe96:5405/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:285 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:22491 (22.4 KB)  TX bytes:56209 (56.2 KB)
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:2199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 
          RX bytes:157589 (157.5 KB)  TX bytes:157589 (157.5 KB)
chas at Charles-PC:~$ 
******************
Before I could paste the results above, a message showed "Disconnected"
and soon "Connected" again.
Restarted the PC & ran ifconfig:
chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
[sudo] password for chas: 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:c3:7b:6a:c5:ea  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3c:1e:04:96:54:05  
          inet
addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3e1e:4ff:fe96:5405/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: fc00::3e1e:4ff:fe96:5405/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:95 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:186 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:42811 (42.8 KB)  TX bytes:37283 (37.2 KB)
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 
          RX bytes:21110 (21.1 KB)  TX bytes:21110 (21.1 KB)
chas at Charles-PC:~$ 
Hooray. Opera works on my ISP websites so the router is "Connected" 
So what do you suggest now? 
Sorry for the long email with all the ifconfig results.
I wonder if I could disable the network card (eth0) in bios before
Ubuntu boots up?

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