How to remove a damaged Wired Connection

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 16:16:22 UTC 2016


On 4 September 2016 at 17:02, Chas IRONS <ironscf at telkomsa.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 16:08 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
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> On 4 September 2016 at 16:01, Chas IRONS <ironscf at telkomsa.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 08:29 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
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> 2. If you wait till the router is in a strange state (not responding
> to the power down switch) and start the PC then the PC does not
> connect to the router until you power cycle the router.
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> Partly true. Even if I start the router first and then start the PC, the PC
> does not connect to the router. I have to reboot the router via its
> Application menu or disconnect and reconnect the USB cable. When the router
> does not respond to the power off switch, the same process restores its
> function.
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> That is not what you said in your last post. You said:
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> 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
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>           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)
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> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3c:1e:04:96:54:05
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>           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)
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> and said that Opera connects ok.
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> Colin
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> You are right sir. Sometimes I cannot even login to the router nor power off
> and rebooting the PC is a slower option.
> Sorry if I confused the facts.

Unfortunately you have still not clarified the situation.  It is
difficult to help if you do not make absolutely clear what is
happening.  A simple question: if you restart the router, wait till it
has stabilised then reboot the PC does it connect?

Colin




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