One more thing:
I know the slot isn't bad because it was _just working_ with that card
and I tried a modem in there and it worked fine. Also I know the card is
still good because it works fine in another laptop running Windows98.
- Matt Bradford
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Bradford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:31 AM
Subject: Question about PCMCIA networking
> I am totally stumped.
>
> Here is the issue: I am running an NEC Versa 5080/64mb RAM/3gb HD and I
> just put a fresh install of RH7.3 on it. Now here is where issues come
> in...
>
> I have a SMC8040TX network card which is supposed to be NE2000 compliant.
> So it just automagically loads the pcnet_cs.o module. The first time I
> inserted the card it worked wonderfully. I got a DHCP address and I could
> get to the net and bring up any page I wanted to. Then I made the mistake
> of turning my laptop off. :-/
>
> Now when I boot up (changing no settings) the card is detected and the
> driver is loaded (known from hearing both beeps and doing an lsmod) but it
> will not transmit anything over the network. It is as if it can only
listen
> to the traffic on the rest of the network but not participate. I can do
an
> 'ifconfig eth0 up' and it shows up in my card listing and then do a
> 'tcpdump -i eth0' and it shows every single packet flowing through the
> network. If I try and hardwire an address to the card ('ifconfig eth0
> 192.168.0.5 up') then it shows the IP address but I cannot ping anything.
> This is very frustrating since it worked perfectly the first time.
>
> To sum up: fresh install of RH7.3 NIC works perfectly. Reboot and it
> becomes a silent partner on the network. Will not join in the chatter
> anymore... even when I uninstall PCMCIA support and put it back in.
>
> Any ideas?
> - Matt Bradford
>
>
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