Re: Dell Mini 1012 network issues

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

letsgonhlcanes0%gmail.com@localhost (Go Canes) writes:

>Issues:
>- constant messages saying "re0: watchdog timeout".  I suspect that
>until this is addressed I won't get much farther.

Maybe bad interrupt routing.

>-  If I rely on DHCP to configure the NIC, I appear to get garbage, as
>the IP4 address is not on-network.

Something like 169.254.x.y ? That's a link local address and is
configured if there is no DHCP response.

>- If I manually set a valid IP4 address and gateway, it still can't
>communicate.  It can't even ping the gateway.

Apparently the interface does not work. Bad interrupt routing can be
an easy explanation, but difficult to fix.

Please try to capture the boot dmesg (saved as /var/run/dmesg.boot) so
that someone can look at it.

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