[mythtv-users] OT: NIC going away.

[R. G. Newbury]

On 02/08/2012 02:10 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:07 PM, R. G. Newbury<newbury at mandamus.org>  wrote:
>> The network has started to fail mysteriously in my mythbox.
>>
>> Or is another NIC a necessity for this box' future?
>
> modprobe -r [module that makes it work]
> modprobe [ditto]
>
> NICs are cheap, pci slots aren't for most backends. Bugger.

Great minds think alike. I thought of that just after my head hit the 
pillow. But I think that is a red herring. I should not NEED a modprobe 
to bring the network back. If I do, then there are more serious issues 
with the OS. And those 2 unexpected network responses seem to me. to 
point to something flaky in the motherboard hardware: a capacitor 
failing or a cold solder joint.

Although why a cold joint should start messing up after 2 years is a 
little weird. WOW. Just looked up the purchase date in the accounting: 
February 17, 2009

Yes NICs are cheap, but as you say, pci slots are not. I have ONE 
available PCI-E slot in the box (the little one inch version). The 
Geforce 9500 uses the long PCI-16 slot and of course, covers the PCI 
slot next to it. The remaining PCI slot has the PVR-500 in it.

So I need to find a PCIE NIC *or* find a USB<>NIC which works. There are 
some of those around, but none seem to profess any love for linux.

Oh great...$10 worth of gas to go buy a $12.00 NIC!

Geoff