Hmm. That's a good one.
I would test whether or not its a hardware problem and not necessarily an OS
problem.
I have multiboot machines and often times I would boot to Win98 to see what
resources are allocated to the device. And I compare the results to what I
get under Linux. Also, I would check to see if the device even works under
Win98. If not, enough said. If you don't have a multiboot system, clearly
this is not an option.
One time, I came across a corrupted hwconf file that actually brought to our
system. A fix for it was to delete the hwconf file and reboot linux. Linux
then rebuilt the hwconf file and all works like a charm.
What I propose is that you 1) delete you hwconf file (make a backup copy
first); 2) cycle down your system; 3) put your card in a different pci slot;
4) power up Linux 5) check the new hwconf (which should have been rebuilt
during the boot process); 6) compare the new hwconf file to your old one.
Expect to possibly have a different IRQ for your Eth card.
If nothing else, try the card in a different machine.
Other things to try:
check for core files that are dated for first time that the card failed to
work.
Check your messages file for errors
check the dmesg file
rebuild you kernel with a "fresh" driver for the card.
I'm sorry this is not very concrete but it could point you in the right
direction.
---Gregory Cox
"My extraordinary pool playing talents can be explained through the art
of miscalculation."
Me, boasting to my friends.
>From: Eric Clover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: redhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: eth0
>Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:07:07 -0500
>
>im having a problem.i have an ethernet card , and it Was working. for
>some unknown reason , it no longer works. it stopped working after a
>reboot.
>it is a realtek rtl8139b. i just changed the module but that just gave
>me an error when the module loads. in the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf it is
>listed
>-
>class: NETWORK
>bus: PCI
>detached: 0
>device: eth
>driver: rtl8139
>desc: "Realtek|RTL-8139"
>vendorId: 10ec
>deviceId: 8139
>pciType: 1
>-
>and in the conf.modules
>
>alias eth0 rtl8139
>options rtl8139 irq=5
>
>it gives no reason for the failure when starting the eth0 , just says
>failure.
>hints/clues on how to fix this??
>thank you
>eric
>
>
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