On Tue June 5 2007 09:37, G T Smith wrote:
a) Does the NIC communicate with a static IP address from SuSE?
No. Even an attempt to ping the router (192.168.2.1) gives error: "Connect: Network is unreachable." "rcnetwork status" gives "eth0 dhcpd is still waiting for data."
I meant with a static address assigned to the NIC the above means that you are still attempting to obtain an address by DHCP... This would establish whether the driver had an issue, or something odd has happened to the DHCP client.
I did now assign the usual IP statically to the card in Yast. "ifconfig" shows the address, but I cannot ping anything in the LAN.
A very faint possibility is that there may be an issue with connection negotiation (Duplex, 10/100 mbps etc).
Would there be any log for this negotiation?
b) Which NIC?
nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller
Is this the same NIC as on your other machines. If you think is so check chipset on card... NIC card manufacturers have a nasty habit of revising the chipset under the hood.
No. Every machine is unique. This one just got a new NIC, which worked fine in Suse for 2 days before I first booted into Windows. When I booted back into Linux, then my problems started. That is why I suspected the DHCP server had some hiccup, but resetting it did not help. Carlos FL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org