its a weird ass Cisco switch model sg300-10pp. was working fine a week ago before i changed my ip address to try and connect to a device with a 10.1.1.x address.
then when i changed my address back to the regular. it wouldn't even connect to the switch. it doesn't seem like the switch itself is broken since i am able to get it to talk to my other hardware. but i could be wrong.
#computer refuses to connect to my network POE switch
solid orchid
also i guess i should add that i am using linux mint.