Had been following this thread with mild interest mainly because I don't use SuSe (RedHat/Fedora & Slackware fan)
Over the weekend though, a friend of mine whose gateway runs SuSe 8.2 run into trouble. His CPU failed (overheating too many times due to a bad fan). He moved the Hard disk and one of the NICs (the other had been onboard) to another machine. I failed to make 2 NICs work under SuSe! All were installed and configured fine but the second card could fail to start. I changed cards around in vain. I tested that both cards work fine as having only one card (any of the two) worked beautifully ie. when you put in only 1 card, it starts and works fine, remove it, put the other works fine, put in both, only eth0 is started! After a long hussle, I gave up, downloaded and configured floppyfw and got him to use that til I can set up a distro I know well and can troubleshoot with ease (Redhat/Fedora or Slackware) Sometimes you have to work with what you know best if it's a critical service you need to set up. If you have the resources to experiment though, don't quit til you find a fix, I guess that's how most of us learnt *nix. Joseph On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:51, Lule George William wrote: > > On Sunday 25 July 2004 04:06, Lule George William wrote: > > > Hello guys, > > > I didn't just let this thread die off. Just been doing alot of work > on > > > this machine and currently here is the update since my last posting. > > > 1) Knocked off SuSE 9.1 and installed 8.0, just to C how it will > > > behave. There was no change with 9.0. > > > 2) Knocked off 8.0 and placed on Windoze 2K Server. Windoze behaved > > > well!!! Could ping both the router and my internal network, > > > perfectly!!! This practically ruled out hardware malfunction. > > > > Have you tried searching the web for another driver for your card(s) > that > > seem(s) to be acting up? > > > Yes I did. Unfortunately, the driver they recommend for this card is > the very one I already have. > > > > > > You could try an eXPloder driver with an NDIS Wrapper under SuSE 9.1. > > > > I'm not sure if I remember you posting this, but did you say you > tried > > installing another PCI NIC and that failed too? > > > Yes I did and it too behaved the same way. If two different cards with > different drivers behave the same way, would the eXPloder driver make a > difference? > > > > > > > Mark. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > > http://www.infocom.co.ug > > > > > > ************************************************************************ > Lule George William (Mr) > Network and Systems Administrator > Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi > P.O. Box 5498 Kampala > Uganda > > > --------------------------------------------- > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > http://www.infocom.co.ug > --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
