On Thursday 04 November 2004 00:48, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I now have more info on the problem: disabling the on-board ethernet module and installing a separate card brought me my connection back. That would seem to indicate a hardware failure. But to verify or refute that, here's the beginning of what showed up in the system log:
eth0: Transmit timed out, status 003, PHY status 786d, resetting IRQ 10: nobody cared!
Can anyone interpret that? Am I dealing with a driver problem or a hardware problem?
Just to clarify: ping localhost worked but pinging anything other than the host led to "network unreachable" errors.
Probably a driver problem. After switching NICs, did you change the driver module with YaST? I usually remove the existing device entirely, and start all over again, and let YaST figure out what module it needs. Cheers, Leen