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

[danarauz at gmail.com]

(...write a lot...)
Dutch = ditch

(Cannot write, so I should not even attempt to do it while on a security
line at an airport. Hahaha)

Rob, do you folks need a switch of the same or you folks are good with what
you have?



On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, danarauz at gmail.com <danarauz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ed, you always a lot < beep >, but that’s okay, I enjoy reading your
> emails. :)
>
> Anyhow, per your suggestion request:
> 1- Check that LL1 and LL2 are patched at the switch level.
>
> 2- if patched, plug your laptop directly into the switch, w an Ethernet
> cable that you 99% sure that is good, Dutch the 1%),  to make sure the
> ports are not turn off. In a hacker space and for “security”  I wouldn’t be
> surprised and non-used ports be turned off.
>
> That’s for now!
>
> Daniel
>
> On Monday, June 17, 2019, 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://sudoroom.org/lists/private/sudo-discuss/attachments/20190618/817b4731/attachment.html>