Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cameron Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : As Warner said in another email, this card normally works flawlessly. I : have many pci versions of it in other machines running current which do : not have this problem, so it could be hardware, but it seems

Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread Cameron Murdoch
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 00:16, Scott Likens wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:04, Cameron Murdoch wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:50, Scott Likens wrote: > > > First, do you use DHCP? > > > > No, not on this laptop. > > > > > What are you doing exactly when it looses 'net or 'ip? > > > > Nothi

Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread Scott Likens
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:04, Cameron Murdoch wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:50, Scott Likens wrote: > *snip* > > First, do you use DHCP? > > No, not on this laptop. > > > What are you doing exactly when it looses 'net or 'ip? > > Nothing specific that I can see. Sometimes nothing, sometimes

Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread Cameron Murdoch
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:50, Scott Likens wrote: *snip* > First, do you use DHCP? No, not on this laptop. > What are you doing exactly when it looses 'net or 'ip? Nothing specific that I can see. Sometimes nothing, sometimes an nfs installworld, which was a bit dangerous seeing as the connectio

Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : try to get a diagnostic program from dell or the card maker. If the : diagnostics are fine, it may be power management, you will need to check : and reset to off any power management that effects the NIC. The

Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread Scott Likens
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:10, Cameron Murdoch wrote: > I have a strange problem with my Dell Inspiron Laptop. The network card > will stop responding to all network traffic. This happens very > regulally, though without any obvious pattern. Sometimes it only > appears as slight packet lose though

Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread Scott Likens
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:10, Cameron Murdoch wrote: > I have a strange problem with my Dell Inspiron Laptop. The network card > will stop responding to all network traffic. This happens very > regulally, though without any obvious pattern. Sometimes it only > appears as slight packet lose though

Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread Derek Ragona
try to get a diagnostic program from dell or the card maker. If the diagnostics are fine, it may be power management, you will need to check and reset to off any power management that effects the NIC. -Derek At 11:18 PM 9/20/2003 +0100, you wrote: I have a strange problem with my Dell

Re: Network problems

2003-09-20 Thread Cameron Murdoch
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:10, Cameron Murdoch wrote: > When the connection gets dropped doing an ifconfig down/up on the > interface does ? This was supposed to say that ifconfig down/up does not help, only removing/inserting the network cable. Also, sorry about the wrong email address in the pri