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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2008
The-Beast’s Ethernet controller went *poof*. The onboard Gigabit controller decided to take a huge nosedive on me. Incoming data worked fine, but the thing just could not push out data. It maxed at about 2.5KBps, even on the internal network. I have popped in an old Realtek 8139 10/100 card in the interim. It may not be gigabit, but it gets me back online.
I am not completely out of luck. The machine with which I wish to replace my file server has built-in gigabit ethernet. That means I can yank the 3Com card out of the old server for The-Beast.
The pains of technology…
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2:10 am - May 19th, 2008
[...] I took the PCI 3Com card out of the old server and put it in The Beast to make up for it’s failed mobo adapter. I could try to RMA the mobo in The Beast but then I would be without it and that just isn’t [...]
9:19 pm - November 1st, 2008
[...] down. Rebooting the machine fixed the problem. I thought this was due to a bogus network card, as has happened to me before using this model of motherboard, so I popped in a different network card and that solved the problem… for a [...]