Installing new network card in Ubuntu 12.04 Server

[chili555]

Update:
Now the ubuntu pc cannot ping anything, router, other computers on the network, google, etc. I restarted all PCs attache;d to the network, turned off the modem / router, turned it back on, the the ubuntu pc, then the windows one.

Not sure why it is so hit or miss...

Then you are not really connected. Let's see:

dmesg | grep eth0
cat /etc/network/interfaces

Is it the Tulipmobile in the PC now or some other?

woot, after a eth0 down, eth0 up, and restarting networking (again it says its deprecated, and should use the service instead: eg: service smbd reload, does it matter? is there a better way? do let me know plz)

If the interface is properly described in /etc/network/interfaces, then all you need to do is:

sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup eth0

Verify with:

ping -c3 192.168.whateverthe.routeris

[failmaster]

Yea I have done all that, I know how to ping and, for some reason, when the new card was on DHCP, it worked, i could ping google, but I did not try to see if windows could ping it. I then changed to static IP, and there it all went south. It seems like it did so in stages.

This behaviour feels very much like a defective card. I can always put in the old one and go from there, but since the old one gives 1mb/s xfer rates, it kinda defeats the purpose of a file server, even if it was for home use.

Thanks again for the continued help.

[failmaster]

Well after another few back and forths, I can tell that the issue is for sure with the new card. It is either damaged or incompatible. I am banking on damaged, not sure how it happened, but I got it once to actually work on DHCP for a few minutes, and then it just started not working anymore.

I will stick it in a windows pc one day to check that it was not a compatibility issue, but I am fairly sure it was hardware issues.

Thanks all for the help!

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