Network card stops functioning

After a lightning storm the network card stop functioning.
The windows hardware manager re-installed it after restarting the system but it is not functioning properly.
It does connect to the network but it doesn't send or receive any data packets.
The MAC address has been changed by the windows hardware manager and the card's orange light is constantly on, even if I remove the network cable.

Hi
> MAC address has been changed by the windows hardware manager
This is improbable because in my knowledge the MAC address is fix and cannot be changed.
You said something about lightning storm for me this is a reason why the LAN card does not work correctly.
Maybe there is short circuit on the motherboard
I dont think this could be fixed in the easy way therefore you should contact an technician who could check the notebook to resolve the LAN card problem

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My ethernet card stopped functioning about a week ago, at the time I thought my cable had died and did not think to much of it. Then I checked the cable in my desktop computer and it worked fine and was able to connect to my router as well as the interent. To the best of my recolection I did not install any new software that may have cuased the problem, just standard pacman package updates. I ran throught the Networking wiki to try and see if I could find anything wrong but was not able to solve the problem. The odd thing is when I try and connect to my router I obtain and IP address of 192.168.1.128 which to my recolection was a fall back address when an error occurs. I normally will run my laptop on my ethernet card just becuase of shotty wireless router suppled by my ISP. I am able to use my wireless card without problems, other then the substandard performace of the wireless router, so my networking appears to be generally functioning on the computer.
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04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
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Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
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[ 5.167906] tg3.c:v3.122 (December 7, 2011)
[ 5.236677] tg3 0000:04:00.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
[ 5.296677] tg3 0000:04:00.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
[ 5.356733] tg3 0000:04:00.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.
[ 5.357927] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev b002] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:00:00:00:00:00
[ 5.357931] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5787 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[0])
[ 5.357934] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 5.357937] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
[ 9.667630] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 181.228436] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 181.228439] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 196.452292] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is down
[ 198.139080] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 198.139084] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 213.460062] tg3 0000:04:00.0: wake-up capability enabled by ACPI
[ 213.490759] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 213.594112] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 215.212240] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 215.212244] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 317.747290] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 319.365458] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 319.365462] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 677.340714] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 677.450541] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 679.089732] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 679.089736] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1458.870527] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1458.980505] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1460.537332] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1460.653833] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1463.029526] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1463.029530] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1463.460524] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1465.088599] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1465.088603] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1466.403974] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1466.534005] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1468.152175] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1468.152179] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1469.364042] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1471.003175] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1471.003179] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1474.737324] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1474.843977] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1476.462073] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1476.462076] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 1538.923961] tg3 0000:04:00.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1540.563060] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 1540.563064] tg3 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
The firmware out of date looked odd to me but seems to be a common thing with the driver at least when I searched the net. I found that message appear several times but without anything posted about my specific problem.
-Running dhcpcd on the ethernet card produces the following output
dhcpcd[3932]: version 5.5.6 starting
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: offered 192.168.1.128 from 192.168.1.1
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: acknowledged 192.168.1.128 from 192.168.1.1
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: checking for 192.168.1.128
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation
dhcpcd[3932]: eth0: leased 192.168.1.128 for 86400 seconds
dhcpcd[3932]: forked to background, child pid 3975
The router IP address is 192.168.1.1
If anyone can be of assitance I would appreciate it. If any other command out put might help feel free to let me know.
Thanks

Trilby wrote:I only have one little thing to contribute - but first I wanted to say welcome to the forum and awesome first post. This is a great example of how to ask questions the "right way" to get a good answer. Sadly I am not the one with that good answer.
Well thanks for the compliment. this is my first post here but not my first go with linux. I started using linux back when Red Hat was still avalaible under the GNU as a free distro. Then to Fedora in beta, Gentoo. Ubuntu, and now Arch. I have been running arch for about two years and just have not needed to post do to generally finding my answers in the wiki or on a forum post either here or else linuxquestions as well. I guess that leads me to say that this distro is one of the most well documented ones I have ever used. Gentoo would be the only other who comes close but that is needed just with the complexity involved in the install.
Trilby wrote:
I will say though that everything looks perfectly in order. The DHCPCD is good, and it shows that you are connected. I assume you recognize an error as a browser does not connect. But have your tried other web-tools to see if they can connect? A good starting point would be ping. Try each of the following:
ping -c 3 google.com
ping -c 3 8.8.8.8
and post the output here.
I did try a ping on the google site both with the name server as well as the ip while going through the network wiki. I also tried a ping to the router it self without success.
[scar@thecube ~]$ ping -c 3 www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com
[scar@thecube ~]$ ping -c 3 google.com
ping: unknown host google.com
[scar@thecube ~]$ ping -c 3 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2008ms
pipe 3
[scar@thecube ~]$ ping -c 3 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.128 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2008ms
pipe 3
I guess one thing I did forget to mention is that the LEDs on the ethernet card seem to be functioning as well when I plug the cable in.
EDIT:
Interesting Update.
I was able to connect to my router as well as the internet by switching over to a static IP. I made sure to set it as high as possible but it did work. I was browsing around and saw another post on the forums and someone suggested to switch to static IP to help troubleshoot the problem.
Here was the post I found: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143183
Last edited by Ronin324 (2012-06-12 09:59:50)

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I know you may have already tried this but have you already installed the boot camp drivers on vista? They can be found on the Leopard install disc. The drivers for all hardware should be on that.

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Dear friends,
I've a problem! :)
Here are some info:
Node Hardware:
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     Installed memory(RAM): 52.0 GB
     System type: 64-bit OS
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     PublicLAN: HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
     PrivateLAN: HP NC373T PCle Multifunction Gig Server Adapter
     Offline: HP NC373T PCIe Multifunction Gig Server Adapter
Software:
     Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise (Very last updates from MS)
     Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2.0 (Clusterware, DB) – 2 nodes
Environment:
     AD network. Everything is MS based.
Problem description:
During RAC installation, company had only one network card (server network card, per node). Installation was successfully finished. RAC was/is in production. Has some problems, but noting for alarm.
This days, we get other network cards. (purpose: network redundancy).
RAC shutdown was clean.
Network card inserted to nodes by OS Admin.
Nodes was started up... and...
OS Admin disabled network card immediately after logon screen was available... but to late...
Windows changed network card order!!! PublicLAN was not at the first place when Cluster started (Network and sharing center -> change adapter settings -> Advanced (from menu) -> Advanced Settings -> Adapters and Bindings)!!! (I found in logs that MAC address changed at this point!)
Cluster started hardware reconfiguration... and... we could not stop CW till starting up finished... ! After stopping CW again, we set PublicLan at first place, and every win setting was as at the moment of installation.
Cluster was started again, DB, OEM too...
Everything is working. Client can connect to DB, applications work well... but...
Damage is done... now we have totally new IP situation inside... changes are saved to the DNS, too!!!
Before inserting network card IP settings (nslookup from any client) :
rac1 192.168.217.60
rac1-vip 192.168.217.62
rac2 192.168.217.61
rac2-vip 192.168.217.63
rac-scan 192.168.217.64
192.168.217.65
192.168.217.66
After this incident (nslookup from any client):
rac1 192.168.217.60
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192.168.217.64
192.168.217.66
rac2 192.168.217.61
192.168.217.63
192.168.217.65
192.168.217.66
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We stopped RAC couple of time and OS Admin cleared DNS records (both zone)... but every start of cluster make changes again in DNS.
Other "side-effects":
Some cluster commands, invoked from CMD, fire errors (lsnodes, cluvfy comp nodecon -n rac1,rac2).
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Logs are full of errors (like: ASM could not be reached... no listener)
Listener(s) stop working sometime...
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Ok, so I got LAN (eth0) back on hwdetect at least. I also managed to get my wireless card in there too:
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Solaris9 x86 problem with network cards, ACPI, IRQs

Hello!
For the last two days I've been trying to solve the problem of Solaris9 x86 not being able to use my network card. I have tried with 3c905CX-TX-M, RealTek 8139 and Realtek 8029 and none of them works. The problem is the following:
Everything is properly configured, networking etc., but the cards can only send and cannot receive packets. When trying to ping, the packets leave the NIC but none of the reponses are detected by NIC. When I check with 'kstat elxl' I can see that 'intr' is zero, and out_packets is increasing as it's sending packets.
From the discussion forum I can see that this same problem has been known for several years. One of the conclusions is that Solaris x86 sucks at dealing with IRQ setup and that the best thing is to disable ACPI and 'PnP OS' option in BIOS. However, I've tried all releases of AMI bios and none them has neither of those options. I have played with various priority levels in BIOS but all that has accomplished is that the card, when first started, captures a few interrupts/packets but then stops again. This is usually just enough to finish the ARP exchange (arp -a shows the remote host).
And of course, all the cards work just fine in WindowsXP and Linux. And all the cards work nice in another PC which runs the same Solaris 9 x86.
My motherboard is Gigabyte 7VTXE. (The other one in which it works is ASUS P2B-DS).
I would really appreciate help!
Josip

I had almost identical problem today on an HP Kayak - which happened to be dual CPU one. The fix
set pcplusmp:apic_forceload = -1
in /etc/system worked for me. The only drawback is that it also leaves the machine single CPU. AFAIK this (downloadable) S9x86 kit is licensed only for one CPU anyway, so I wonder if something has been fixed in the code to make sure it is not run on multi-CPU systems. Before the fix, mpstat showed thousands of interrupts on CPU0, both CPUs were constantly busy at about 70% and there was no network connection on a number of cards I tried (3Com 90x - elxl, Intel iprb, another one with Realtek 8139 was never recognized, so I did not bother too much to find if there is a fix for this); pinging out resulted in the hub port light blinking, nothing comes back.
Anyway, the fix is good enough to test s9 for now; everything else seemed to be OK. If it may be of some use for somebody, don't go into the disk option of the Solaris Management Console; the machine in question had Windows 2003 server (RC2) installed before Solaris9, the disk tool decided that there was no label on the disk and asked to write it on; I clicked the 'cancel' button, but the partition table was irreversibly damaged, so I had to start from installing W2k3. My guess is that tool has been tested only with Sparc, so there is no issue with BIOS level partitioning there. BTW, system info of the SMC insists that the CPUs are Sparcs...

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and the tech guy said
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Hi MikeFi,
Have you installed any sort of network card in the notebook yourself? If so then perhaps you will find proceeding link helpful:- http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-69757
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