Monitor problems (was hi) + Question

[dubrowin at bbn.com (Sheldon Dubrowin)]

The first thing is, can you ping yourself?  From the Debian box can you ping
the IP of the card you are trying to test.  That will tell you if your system
thinks the card is up, but it doesn't check the physical connection (the 10Bt
line).

	Shel

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:08:06AM -0500, Colin Principe wrote:
> "Frank J. Ramsay" wrote:
> 
> > >     proble lies in the monitor.  (I use a digital switch box to share 
> the
> > >     monitor, it's worked fine for over a year so I doubt it's that)  On
> > >     the monitor note, where is the best place to get a good monitor, 
> PC's
> > >     for Everyone has some ok prices, but I'd like to do better.
> 
> I would recommend checking out that switch box.  At my office we had a 
> switcher that was pretty new but still had the tinting problems you 
> describe.  I concur that you should take the switch box out of the loop 
> first.
> 
> On a unrelated topic, can anyone recommend some internal tests on Debian 
> 2.0.34 to see if a network card is active?  I'm trying to ping across a 
> 10-Base-T and the remote machine doesn't recognize the IP address.  I'm 
> trying to diagnose all problems along the chain, but I wanted to make sure 
> my system was seeing the card.  The IP address I'm using shows up at eth0 
> when I do ifconfig.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Colin
> 
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