Bingo.. Many thanks, Jeffrey!
Eric On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 20:01, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 01:02:41PM -0600, Eric Ladner wrote: > > I have an IBM T23 laptop that worked just dandy under 7.2 for over a > > year, then I did a clean install of RH 8.0. > > > > Now, periodically, the machine will forget about the built int network > > card (IBM eepro100). > > > > When it works, everything works great. When it stops, I can't ping > > anything except the local IP address (not even my direct connected > > router). The only way I can clear it is to /etc/rc.d/init.d/network > > stop, then start. > > > > When the problem happens, the network card doesn't appear down, but > > stopping and restarting makes it work correctly. I've verified all the > > DNS and routing information. This is a DHCP box, so it's getting many > > of the network settings from the DHCP server (there are two other linux > > machines on the same network that work fine). > > > > Anybody seen anything like this? > > I have the same laptop and am running RedHat 8.0 also. I > experienced the exact same behavior as you described. Apparently > there is an issue with the power management of that particular > NIC. Here is what I did to resolve the issue. > > First download the eepro100 diag utility from the following site: > > http://www.scyld.com/diag > > Once you have it you need to compile it (the commands are given > at the bottom of the C source code). > > Once you have the resulting binary file named eepro-diag, run it > with the -ee option. This shows the details of the eeprom. When > it reports back it will most likely say "Sleep mode is enabled" > and give you the switches necessary to disable it (-G 0 -w -w > -f). Once you run the diag tool with those switches you will > need to cold boot the computer to make the changes take affect. > > You can probably find some additional information by searching > http://groups.google.com on 'eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done > timeout'. Or look at a brief blurb here: > > http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-eepro100/2002-Jun/0064.html > > Hope this helps! > > /jft -- Eric Ladner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
