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Saturday, March 12 2005

Being connected

Well this day started out nice. My computer crashed and apparently took out my NIC with it, the strange thing however, is what's wrong with it. It will send packages no problem, but it received nothing. Tested it in windows and linux and both showed the same symptoms, tried the network cable in my laptop and it worked perfectly. Tried pinging my loopback and also worked. So basically, it's not the software, it's not the network, and since loopback worked it's also not about 90% of the card. *sigh* but broken none the less.

Well it was a old card so i'm not really shedding any tears over it, the trouble was however that the only spare one i had was a old realtek i got with a cable modem subscription. (so it's cheap and thus crappy and very very old) first booted into linux with it, currently running Ubuntu linux hoary. But to no avail, it din't even register as a ethernet device for as far as i could tell. After that i booted into windowsXP, that promptly told me it found some new hardware, and that the hardware was a ethernet device. YaY
The only problem however was that it hadn't the foggiest idea to what kind of ethernet device it was, and to find out it wanted to connect to the internet. *sigh*

So now i'm currently working on my laptop also running Ubuntu hoary. And i'm actually quite pleased with how fast it works, since it's quite a old laptop. Also the fact that it produces little sound is quite a plus. The only problem with it however is that it's more like a very light weight and flat workstation. Since the battery is kinda deceased and it needs the power cable inserted into it at all times.