I am running Debian 2.2.17 on my office machine connected to a university network. When I'm in my office things work well, and I am connected well to the outside world. When I leave the office and the machine is not being used, it cannot be pinged from the outside world (it can be pinged when I'm using it in my office). I thought this might be because the machine is going to sleep when I'm gone (the screen does go blank), but I couldn't find any power saving system turned on in the bios (I may not be looking in the right place, or know what I'm looking for). I am now able to keep the machine accessible from outside by running a javascript program that reloads a web page every couple of minutes; this allows me to ping the machine at will. But I'd like to avoid this, and would like to fix the problem.
I was wondering if it was in the ethernet card or driver. My startup message reads: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Cyclone 10Mbps TPC at 0x1080, 00:50:04:0d:87:e1, IRQ 11 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 182d. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. I was wondering if replacing that ethernet card with a linksys 10/100 card (and tulip driver) would help; I have it lying on my desk. Any suggestions would be appreciated, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
