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

[robb]

to clarify, the router is a desktop computer with 2 ethernet ports
anything more stable & efficient might be useful
we have a pcie gigabit ethernet card for the 2nd port

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 5:06 PM Lesley Bell <zvezdalune at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also have a 24-port switch available if that would help.
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 2:24 PM Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One of the things in my pile to donate to Sudo Room is a totally new,
>> unused gigabit wireless/wired router.  Would that be helpful?   It's
>> currently in the Castro in SF.
>>
>> Best,
>> Mitch.
>>
>>
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>> *From:* sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss-bounces at lists.sudoroom.org> on behalf
>> of robb <sf99er at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 18, 2019 09:53
>> *To:* Ed Biow
>> *Cc:* sudoroom Discussion List; Liberated Lens
>> *Subject:* Re: [sudo-discuss] [liberated_lens] Ethernet down at
>> liberated lens office, & iCrap upgrade
>>
>> 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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