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When you miss my messages YOU RISK PERIL! HEED my warning before it's TOO LATE!
OK.
If your card was able to do TCP/IP to the local network (the dorm might be one class C) but not to the net in general, that is more likely to be a settings problem than a problem with the card. The card is getting a lot done just to talk with other interfaces and that kinda rules out hardware.
But not completely! It might still come under the heading of Weird Things That Are Never Supposed To Happen.
The Cellar's own NIC had such an occurrence over the weekend, when it suddenly decided to quit routing altogether, although it reported no errors and reset properly through a reboot. It took a hard reset - turning the entire system off - to get it flying again. And all the while I was saying "...well here's something that shouldn't fix this problem."
Commodity hardware: all right-thinking people should hate it.
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