Motherboard is a new ABIT VA-10 MB.
The two NICs I've tried are the onboard via-rhine
and the myson el-cheapo_rtl_like using the fealnx driver.
The Myson was working when I pulled it out.
I did try ping from the laptop. I could reach the gateway/firewall
but not the desktop.

Thanks,

Brian Densmore

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay 
> 
> You said it is an on-board NIC, but I didn't see which model 
> NIC or motherboard.  Also which module are you using to run 
> the NIC?   Broadcom Gig NIC or nForce2, other?
> 
> Try different switch port, different cable, check driver 
> model and version, try to ping from gateway to pc if possible 
> or from another PC to the broken one.  If your switch is set 
> to autosensing, try setting your NIC to 100Mb half Duplex.  
> You could quickly check the cable and switch by putting a 
> standard old 3Com NIC in the box that should be autodetected. 
>  I keep several of these around for this purpose.
> 
> 
> Brian Kelsay
> 
> 
>