Am wondering if anyone else is experiencing issues with ye olde Raspberry Pi model B (700 MHz CPU, 512 MB RAM) connecting to their network via the wired interface. I honestly can't say when it started happening - my Pi serves as a backup backup DNS server, so I only noticed when my main nameservers went down and I couldn't resolve hostnames.
It's working fine now with USB wireless, but would like to get wired connection going. Currently my interface shows up as:
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether b8:27:eb:2d:81:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
I've confirmed that the connected cable is working. I've connected it to my laptop and connected to the network with it. I've tried Raspbian as well and had the same problem. Seems like the NIC on the Pi finally crapped out? Anyone have any suggestions as to what I might try next? Only thing I haven't done is fetch an old Raspbian image - could there have been a change to the raspberry pi firmware that impacted my board? Thanks in advance for your help.