[sudo-discuss] [liberated_lens] Ethernet down at liberated lens office, & iCrap upgrade

[robb]

ya, network's been borked since the router died/was replaced
i'll try to do some troubleshooting at hardware hack nite tonite

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 6:50 PM Ed Biow <biow at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hey fiends, I needed to take a bath anyway, so I overcame my revulsion
> and upgraded the iMac from 4GB to 12 GB of memory. as you can see from
> the attached screenshot. I also connected the big monitor to the right,
> I don't know if it was disconnected for a specific reason.
>
> It looks like the ethernet cable is disconnected, so the iMuck was using
> wifi.  Anka came in and informed me that the ethernet is not working for
> the Hackintush, either, and has been down for a week or so. I screwed
> around with the DHCP settings in OSX, but no luck. So I rebooted to
> Linux on the Hackentosh and confirmed that the ethernet is not working
> there, either. Someone added a PCI-E network adapter to the Hack, so I
> tried jacking into the onboard ethernet, no joy. And I found a piece of
> ethernet cable lying on the ground, so I used to to directly jack in to
> each of the 2 ethernet ports that come in from the hall directly,
> squatissimo. So I connected the random bit of ethernet to the iMac and
> each of the ethernet jacks coming into the office, but as soon as I
> turned off the wifi I lost connectivity.
>
> So it appears that LL1 & LL2 ethernet jacks are no long connected to the
> server above the sudoroom. The ethernet was working in the LL orifice a
> couple of weeks ago when I hooked up the new monitor to the Hackentosh
> and replaced funky M.2 SSD with a new Linux SSD. Possibly something
> didn't get hooked up after the Omni router died from from heat stroke &
> got replaced on or about June 9th. I traced the white LL1 & LL2 cables
> back up to the sudoroom server farm, but then got lost in the hell-broth
> of cables, and my "brain" exploded, so fixing this issue is above my
> pay-grade.
>
> So, I scavenged a USB wifi dongle off of one of the GCEA boxes in the
> hall (that didn't have a mouse, anyway), so the Linux and Windows 10
> sides of the Hackentosh now have internet, but with O$X with its
> wonderful tradition of "Think Different" refuses to recognize the cheesy
> Edimax EW-7811Un wifi dongle.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions to get the ethernet working again?
>
> Steamy puddles of affection,
>
> Einstein & Ed
>
>
>
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