On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 04:39:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I rebooted to linux I noticed several network error > messages, and ping showed "Network is unreachable". > Apparently the rescue disk had confused my WD8013 ethernet > card. Then I booted do DOS -- and it complety hang after > probing the ethernet card: "WD80x3 adress PROM contents are > invalid". I did a hard reset, and, look, my ethernet card > automagically awoke from paralyzation -- what the hell had > happened? > > I remember that I had similar problems with two cheapo NE2000 > clones after installing Debian the first time. One (Debian 1.1, > Dec 96) came back to life after consulting the DOS > configuration tool (grrr...). The second case (1.2, Apr 97)
> Am I the only one with such an expirience? I should add that I Interesting. I've got quite a few NE2000s and haven't had them lose their configuration, but I have had quite a few (about three now) die completely. I'm currently using an WD 8013 in my PC, which on a couple of occasions has had invalid PROM states; the DOS driver won't load, and I haven't had the EtherEZ stuff on hand to reconfigure it. Usually, I boot Linux and Linux revives it. 8013 seems to be quite a good card. Better than the NE2000's I've got. And I bought it for $1.50 Australian out of a junk basket at a local electronics store; marked "no drivers." Better than the $40 NE2000s. I also bought (for $5) a big VLB IDE/IO/SCSI card (Adaptec 1520 based), also "no drivers." Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
