On Saturday 22 December 2001 14:02, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Dear People, > > I recently installed Debian Woody on a IBM Netvista 6792. The > network card is the Intel 100 Pro VE. The standard driver for > this appears to be the eepro100. I'm using the standard kernel > shipped with Debian Potato/Woody, 2.2.19pre17. The card was > configured automatically for me by Debian using eepro100 and > dchp. Don't know the details, but can investigate. > > when I try to run apt (apt-get whatever) which downloads files > off the net, it works fine for a bit, but then comes to a > grinding halt, and completely freezes the machine. After this > not even the power button responds. The only way to restart > the computer is to pull the power plug. Otherwise the machine > seems quite stable, and at this point is has only a minimal > installation configured. I don't have X or sound or any other > devices connected. > > So, it seems reasonable to assume that the problem might be > with networking and hence with the card. My next step will be > to try the Intel driver which Debian has fairly recent sources > for (but unfortunately not binaries). I don't know whether > this will help. A further long shot would be that the problem > is with the dchp client used, but I don't think this is very > likely. > > Any suggestions or thoughts? If you do, please copy any > responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not on the mailing list. > Thanks in advance. > > Sincerely, Faheem > Mitha.
I have the same problem (minus the complete lockup) with a machine at work using the identical card (the eepro 100 VE). Whenever I do anything over the network I consistently have to check to make sure whatever I'm doing completes. Many times I have to reinitiate "it" just to get what I'm trying to do done. I tried compiling the driver from the code which Intel provides on their site. That seemed to do the trick for a little while. After updating and compiling a new kernel I had the same problem again. From my experience, the problems aren't just related to the GNU/Linux OS. If I were you (this is just my *advice*), I would write off the card and get a new one (of a different type). This is the only card I've ever had problems with. HTH, Jesse
