How to remove a damaged Wired Connection

[Colin Law]

On 4 September 2016 at 16:01, Chas IRONS <ironscf at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 08:29 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>
>
>> 2. If you wait till the router is in a strange state (not responding
>> to the power down switch) and start the PC then the PC does not
>> connect to the router until you power cycle the router.
>
> Partly true. Even if I start the router first and then start the PC, the PC
> does not connect to the router. I have to reboot the router via its
> Application menu or disconnect and reconnect the USB cable. When the router
> does not respond to the power off switch, the same process restores its
> function.

That is not what you said in your last post. You said:
>Restarted the PC & ran ifconfig:
>chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
>[sudo] password for chas:
>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 10:c3:7b:6a:c5:ea
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

>eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3c:1e:04:96:54:05
          inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3e1e:4ff:fe96:5405/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: fc00::3e1e:4ff:fe96:5405/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:95 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:186 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:42811 (42.8 KB)  TX bytes:37283 (37.2 KB)

and said that Opera connects ok.

Colin