It may have been because of a new card added or you enabled another
device that needed an IRQ. That could have switched the IRQ's in NVRAM
in the bios. PnP is a evil thing some times. :)
-=>Adam<=-
"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
>
> Of course the link light was lit. That's the first thing you are supposed to check.
> Anyhow, I got it going again by telling the BIOS that I don't have a PNP OS. On top
> of that, my modem is now assigned to a serial device.
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to why it would work, and then just quit working? It works
> now that I have changed that BIOS setting, but I don't understand what could have
> possibly went wrong.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Trenton D. Adams wrote:
> >
> > > yesterday, my eth0 interface was working just fine. I turned my system on today,
> > > and I can't ping anyone but myself. I have a Kingston PNP card, but I have
> > > it set to io=0x240 and irq=3 so it is now an NE2000 compatible. Here is what
> > > I do on startup.
> > >
> > > I go
> > > modprobe ne io=0x240 irq=3
> > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2
> >
> > This can be so many things. Does the card have link? (ie. link LED is
> > lit).
> >
> > Bye Borek
> >
> > - --
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> > BOREK LUPOMESKY, network administrator University of J. E. Purkyne
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> > WWW: http://www.ujep.cz/~lupomesk/ Usti nad Labem, 40096
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