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Michael Haan wrote: | My experience here is approaching the ridiculous. I have an amd64 | 3800+ riding an Epox 9NDA3+ mobo which has an nForce3 chipset and, | among otheter things, an onboard NIC. Two weeks ago I decided to | install gentoo from the 2004.3 universal cd. After three hours of | trying to get the NIC to work, I came across an obscure little post | which indicated I should boot "gentoo noapic" instead of just gentoo. |>From what I recall, that did the trick and I went on to build what | seemed to be a very fast and stable little system - until a few nights | ago. For some reason, the NIC decided to just stop working. | Eventually, I jacked an old 3c900 into the box and got that running. | But then some other issues made me decide to do a fresh install and, | while I'm at it, get the onboard NIC working again. However, the old | "gentoo noapic" on the live cd is not working. ifconfig shows the NIC | immediately after booting (but with the 192.168.0.xxx addr, not the | 192.168.1.xxx addr that I need). All attempts at getting and address | to be assigned via dhcp - fail. I can net-setup.ifconfig the card | manually, but it doesn't matter because the card is just pretending - | it doesn't *really* work. It can't ping anything except itself. Can | someone please tell me: | | 1) What is the issue? What am I missing? | 2) How do I fix it? | 3) Why is this such a persistant issue, and when will it be fixed? | | Sorry to sound so frustrated, but it's not "just working".
I really do not have an answer to your questions, but from my experience with on-board ethernet controllers is that they are really a piece of crap. Even if they do work (or at least to seem so) you will find that connectivity is not reliable. I always add a NIC card to every system and disable the on-board NIC. I would suggest that you not purchase the cheapest NIC you can find as you will have problems there. I have had good luck with both 3Com and NetGear.
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