On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:44:12PM -0400, Tony Hernandez wrote:
> I'm running 1.4 on my home PC as a workstation, My 3c90xx 3com card just
> stopped working correctly. I had this problem on intial boot up.. but I
> thought that I had fixed it by using the  media 10baseT option.. this worked
> before but not now. I cannot ping myself 'ping localhost / 127.0.0.1 /
> 192.168.0.1' none of those work. ifconfig lists the card as 'active' with
> the correct address, netmask and media. When I use 'ifconfig ex0 down' it
> still lists it there as configured. is there soemthing I can do to stop this
> from happening? The NIC is decidedly more important than the processor even
> :) It is wierd that it works a lot then does not work on some boot up's. I
> have tried warm and cold boots with no success anymore. the network card is
> good I have made sure of that by installing a small linux installation to
> test it.

To what kind of equipement is the nic connected ?
It could be a negotiation problem (speed or full-duplex).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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