How to remove a damaged Wired Connection

[Chas IRONS]

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irons.charles at gmail.com
Home   +2711 782 8623On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 17:16 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 4 September 2016 at 17:02, Chas IRONS <ironscf at telkomsa.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 16:08 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > 
> > On 4 September 2016 at 16:01, Chas IRONS <ironscf at telkomsa.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 08:29 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > That is not what you said in your last post. You said:
> > 
> > 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)
> > 
> > and said that Opera connects ok.
> > 
> > Colin
> > 
> > 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
Hi Colin
If the PC is running and I reboot the router, the PC connects fine
without rebooting. If I also reboot the PC  it will also connect fine.
Hope that is clearer now.
You really are most patient. Thanks. Chas
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