On 20 Apr 2004 13:28:21 -0700
(E-Mail Removed) (Bryce) wrote:
> During the last few months my Suse 9.0 (Kernel 2.4.21-144-default)
> worked perfect. I have an Elitegroup K7S5A board. I enabled the
> SIS internal NIC and added an Intel e100 card. Both worked fine
> for about 3 months. eth0 was for the internal network (fixed IP)
> and eth1 for a DHCP one.
>
> All at a sudden my eth1 (e100) went away after reboot. lsmod shows
> that e100 is still there. I cannot remove it. I did not change
> anything at that time.
> Then in Suse I removed the eth1 (e100) NIC, reboot and added it
> again. Voila, the eth1 was up again with an address of DHCP. So I
> rebooted again(ok, ok...) then the eth1 disapeared again. A boot
> with the Knoppix CD showed a similar effect. But strange enough,
> even if I get temporarily an IP address from the DHCP server on
> eth1, I could not ping a known internet address.
> Any ideas? (Don't forget, it worked just fine for about 3
> months...)
>
> Bryce
It happened to me once that I had to throw away 3 NIC after a
thunderstorm. Check the card on another box and see what happens.
Greets
Chris
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