On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, George Sollish wrote:

> 
> I'm not quite sure where to start on this one.  I am converting a RH6.0
> box with a functioning 3c509 card over to 1.4.1.  Right now it dual boots
> to both from LILO.  Perhaps 60% of the time, when I boot 1.4.1 ifconfig -a
> reports the ep0 interface up but the network remains down (ping any local
> box returns "host down").  If I reboot the box it usually functions
> correctly.  Is this a LILO quirk which will go away when I replace LILO

LILO is just the boot-loader and should not interfere with netcards.

I have a 3c509 my own and it works fine. (on a dx4/100).

Do you have other cards installed like a soundcard?

Mabye it's an IRQ-conflict? This problem occurs on a friends computer (a
p200MMX with a soundcard). I pulled the soundcard out and it suddenly
worked.

	/Roine