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

[Lesley Bell]

Not sure about switch details, can bring it by next time I'm around sudo

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 9:56 PM danarauz at gmail.com <danarauz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Lesley, if the switch is not a PoE+ then, I suggest that, it may be
> better for the LL group as their internal switch, connecting to one of the
> data drops in their room.
> The switches at the Server area/rack provide power to the Wireless Access
> Points around the building.
>
>
> 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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