On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Tim Duggan wrote: td> Hi, td> td> On 10/12/00 at 8:55 PM S.Toms wrote: td> td> > Second, I have an older linksys card, v.2.0 PCI 10/100 and td> > everythings been working fine for the last year connected to my DSL td> > then all of a sudden tuesday I lost connection (GTE/Verizon haveing td> > difficulties). When the connection was fixed, I still could not td> > connect, restart system, still no go. Unplug card, nothing, Put in td> > above ethernet card, couldn't get a driver to work with td> > it. Finally, I switched the two cards call outs in my td> > /etc/conf.modules file calling it eth0 eth1 and vice versa (I have td> > a linksys and a builtin pcnet32 ethernet connection). This td> > allowed me to get the connection back up on both the internal and td> > external connections. I then reversed them back ot the original td> > settings, linksys on eth0 and pcnet on eth1 and the connection td> > worked again there as well. Anyway, nothing at all shows up in the td> > logs or indicates what was causing the problem so I'm not sure what td> > to look for, the only thing I got was the error at bootup of the td> > firewall that says that eth0 doesn't exist or isn't available at td> > this time. td> td> That's different. <shrug> td> Yeah, what I'm not sure of though is if I should report it to the author of the linksys driver/module, or the authors of dhclient as at this point (at least in my opinion) it falls under one of those two as a possible bug or just a fluke that may or may not ever happen again. But it's worth finding out if anyone has ever come across the same thing. td> Good luck, td> Tim td> td> td> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.17 "A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line today. The results blacked out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon." -- Steel City News -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq