On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 21:17, Frank Bax wrote: > I downloaded Mandrake ISO's to one machine; then used these for an ftp > install on a second machine. Sometime after the installation, access to > anything through the nic wouldn't work. I finally did get some results > when I changed from DHCP to static ip. But now there's a different > problem. Earlier this week, I happened to reboot the machine and when it > came up, the system 'forgot' it had a network card. When I went into MCC, > there was no card listed, but as I went through the wizard, previous > setting were 'remembered' and the system worked again. Today, I happened > to do another reboot, amd the same thing happened again. Am I missing > something simple for the system to 'remember' it has a nic during a reboot. > > Frank > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Assuming it's not something simple like the network cable fell out (don't laugh, I once spent an hour tracking that one down). I'm wondering if you're having some kind of IRQ conflict. Do you have an on-board nic or is it a pci card. If it's a PCI card, try moving it to a different slot and see if it's detected. Some motherboards are funny about assigning resources depending on what PCI slot is used. After Linux boots up (whether you change slots or not), you might want to check the error logs and see if there are any boot messages that might shed light on what's going on. Joeb
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