On Thursday 24 February 2005 20:12, Hans Witvliet wrote:
Dear list,
just re-installed Suse of my wife's pc. Strange thing is, that the network seems to be dead. The device eth0 is created, but rx-counters remain zero, tcpdump shows no traffic, except when ping-ing on the same machine ifcfg eth0 shows no indication of any problem.
First assumption could be that the board (3C509b, ISA-bus) is broken, however, if i reboot the machine under M$, the device works happily.
I know, if you use the latest, state-of-the-art boards, the is a chance that it's not supported yet, but this old board is quite a different chapter.
With older versions (Suse, RedHat) is use to have no problems whatsoever...
Suggestions (besides replacing the board) ?
Hans.
There is a package called netdiag that contains utiliities to get the contents of the hardware registers on the NIC. That may help Paul -- Paul Hewlett (Linux #359543) Email:`echo az.oc.evitcaten@ttelweh | rev` Tel: +27 21 852 8812 Cel: +27 72 719 2725 Fax: +27 86 672 0563 --