some kinda hardware problem

Hello All

I've been trying to setup fedora core 3 on a box with an Abit VP-6
motherboard (dual cpu). The install goes fine. When I start the machine up,
the networking doesn't work. All the little GUI tools say eth0 is active.
The output of ifconfig looks like it should, but if I try to ping someone
it just times out. This problem occures with core 2 as well. I'm running
core 1 on the machine as I write this, so it appears that the problem comes
with the 2.6 kernel which is in core 2 and 3 and not in 1. I installed core
3 on another machine and it works great. I'm looking for ideas on debugging
this. It appears to be some kind of hardware problem. I've tried 2
different NIC's, no difference. I've tried running ethereal and then
pinging some machine and I don't see any outgoing ping packets. If I ping
this machine from another I see the little light on the NIC blink but
ethereal sees no incoming packets. I've got a DSL connection to the net and
one of those linksys soho routers. There is a little 5 port switch between
the machine and the router. Now, this is real interesting, I've found a
neat little tool, mii-tool, it give you info about you network link. If I
run it it tells me I've got a 100 MB/s full duplex link to the switch. If I
replace the switch with an old 10 MB/s one I've got laying around, it
reports that it's 10 MB/s. So the link is up and working. No interesting
stuff in /var/messages. Any good ideas on how to try to debug this problem?
Anybody have any experience with the 2.6 kernel and this Abit motherboard?
It seems the problem is tied to this mobo.

TIA
Dave

How can it be a hardware problem if your using the maching now?

I would look to the network drivers. Try and read the readme and faq,
etc. on the network card driver. See if there are known bugs wrt/ fc3


that guy wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I've been trying to setup fedora core 3 on a box with an Abit VP-6
> motherboard (dual cpu). The install goes fine. When I start the machine up,
> the networking doesn't work. All the little GUI tools say eth0 is active.
> The output of ifconfig looks like it should, but if I try to ping someone
> it just times out. This problem occures with core 2 as well. I'm running
> core 1 on the machine as I write this, so it appears that the problem comes
> with the 2.6 kernel which is in core 2 and 3 and not in 1. I installed core
> 3 on another machine and it works great. I'm looking for ideas on debugging
> this. It appears to be some kind of hardware problem. I've tried 2
> different NIC's, no difference. I've tried running ethereal and then
> pinging some machine and I don't see any outgoing ping packets. If I ping
> this machine from another I see the little light on the NIC blink but
> ethereal sees no incoming packets. I've got a DSL connection to the net and
> one of those linksys soho routers. There is a little 5 port switch between
> the machine and the router. Now, this is real interesting, I've found a
> neat little tool, mii-tool, it give you info about you network link. If I
> run it it tells me I've got a 100 MB/s full duplex link to the switch. If I
> replace the switch with an old 10 MB/s one I've got laying around, it
> reports that it's 10 MB/s. So the link is up and working. No interesting
> stuff in /var/messages. Any good ideas on how to try to debug this problem?
> Anybody have any experience with the 2.6 kernel and this Abit motherboard?
> It seems the problem is tied to this mobo.
>
> TIA
> Dave


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