[mythtv-users] OT: NIC going away.

[Nick Rout]

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.  No messages
> of any sort: all contact with outside units fails. "hdhomerun_config
> discover" returns 'no devices found'.
>
> And nothing seemed to bring the network back except a re-boot. (That
> might be important, I think). 'Service network restart' does nothing, as
> do 'ifdown eth0' and 'ifup eth0'. Once it's gone away, I get 'network
> unreachable' from pings etc. etc.
>
> I set up a cron to 'hdhomerun_config discover' every minute. And it
> worked for quite a time: from Saturday evening to Tuesday morning. Then,
> communications failed. Oddly there was one minute a few hours later when
> the network worked, but then nothing until I rebooted earlier tonight.
> See below.
>
> No power failures, and swapping cables made no difference.
>
> This box has run dependably for at least 3 years. Does anyone know
> whether ethtool? anything? could help diagnose this?
>
> 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.

>
> Geoff
>
>
> # hdhomerun_config discover run every minute by cron
>
> Tue Feb  7 10:03:01 EST 2012
> hdhomerun device 1010EA43 found at 192.168.1.80
> Tue Feb  7 10:04:01 EST 2012
> no devices found
> # No messages...it just goes away
> <snip>
> Tue Feb  7 12:45:01 EST 2012
> no devices found
> Tue Feb  7 12:46:01 EST 2012
> hdhomerun device 1010EA43 found at 192.168.1.80
> # But this one contact in the middle was interesting!
>
> Tue Feb  7 12:47:01 EST 2012
> no devices found
> <snip>
> Tue Feb  7 15:56:01 EST 2012
> no devices found
> Tue Feb  7 15:57:01 EST 2012
> hdhomerun device 1010EA43 found at 192.168.1.80
> # As was this one!
>
> Tue Feb  7 15:58:01 EST 2012
> no devices found
> <snip>
> Tue Feb  7 19:25:01 EST 2012
> no devices found
>
> <rebooted here>
>
> Tue Feb  7 19:36:01 EST 2012
> hdhomerun device 1010EA43 found at 192.168.1.80
>
> Tue Feb  7 19:37:01 EST 2012
> hdhomerun device 1010EA43 found at 192.168.1.80
>
>
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>
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