RE: [Nolug] "Can't activate eth0"

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    Wednesday I got the worst BS tech support person I've ever experienced.
She insisted that since I have an unsupport modem (SpeedStream 5360) and
unsupported OS, it has to be my fault. Today I got someone more helpful, who
tried getting in on my id and pw and succeeded. So evidently the problem is
on my end.
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Bell South Tech Support is Soooo bad, I refuse to speak to anyone unless
they are in Oak Ridge TN.
I had a guy in Ft Lauderdale FL flat out lie to me just because it was an
hour before quitting time and he didn't want to be bothered. Also, the Oak
Ridge guys will acknowledge you being an IT expert and skip past the obvious
things on pages 1-3 of the DSL checklist.

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    I of course gave up on the router until I can connect both boxes
individually without it. When I try to activate DSL, the act and enet lights
on the bridge flash, usually repeating the same pattern at least three times
before saying "cannot activate ppp0."
    Could the NICs be the problem?
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NICs could be blown, that happened to me two years back. NIC worked until I
rebooted box and never worked again.
(I had diag tools that confirmed the NIC worked, but was unable to Tx/Rx,
Loopback 100%.)
However, I have also had a signal error that knocked my circut out at one of
the switching station sub panels down the street. Similar flashing lights
and Techs were able to connect directly from the circut at the main office.
I had to unplug everything including the phone line from the modem, and
disconnect every device from that phone line, before I could reconnect.
I later found out there was a severed cable in the neighborhood feed by that
sub panel. That probably caused a surge or something.

Anyway, hope this helps.
Chris

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Received on 11/13/03