Re: bad device?

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Lee Ross wrote:

> I think this is my network card. How do I find out for sure before
> purchasing a new card? I can't send or receive email and I cannot browse
> the internet. I tried bypassing my router but that didn't change anything.
>
>
> leeross@kelvin:~$ opera
> ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded:
> ignored.
> ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded:
> ignored.
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
> Major opcode: 144
> Minor opcode: 3
> Resource id: 0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
> Major opcode: 144
> Minor opcode: 3
> Resource id: 0x0
> Failed to open device
> opera: Activated running instance

Standard network clients don't open a NIC directly, so those errors have
nothing to do with your NIC (which doesn't mean your network is working
correctly, of course). X errors like that are caused by an inability to
grab a device listed as an InputDevice in your X configuration, typically a
mouse or keyboard.

You might want to run "X -configure" and compare that to your current
xorg.conf from outside of X. After backing up your current configuration,
of course.

If you don't have network connectivity you might want to look at whether or
not your system is configured to run a DHCP client or should be using a
static assignment. You also might want to see if your system even
recognizes that it has your current NIC by examining dmesg output, etc.

A few tips to check your network configuration:

   ifconfig -a # does eth0 have a valid IP address and is up & running?
   netstat -rn # do you have a default gateway set?
   cat /etc/resolv.conf # do you have valid DNS servers configured?

If all that looks good, see if you can ping your gateway, DNS servers, etc.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Sun Mar 25 15:20:59 2007