23 Dec
2008
23 Dec
'08
1:33 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:24:52AM -0500, Eric Martin wrote:
Have you tried to ping the loopback address? I know that a fried card won't respond to lo replies (127.0.0.1) in Windows, but I'm not sure what the behavior is in *NIX. That being said, if the loopback interface isn't up then we have our answer.
The loopback interface is a separate interface that has no relation whatsoever to any real device.