On Saturday 17 January 2004 08:18 am, Joe wrote:Thanks. I will keep playing as long as my buddy will let me hack away at it. I think he is getting a little impatient though. I had it working at first but then it didn't after a reboot into windows. Then it worked again (without me doing anything). Then it didn't. I tried at first with the eepro100 driver mandrake chooses for me. I tried using the tool eepro100-diag to turn off the sleep mode (which i had read may help with this card). It seemed to turn off sleep mode but the card still didn't work. Then I read somewhere that eepro100 is not the best driver for the card and that i should be using intel's e100 driver. Switched to that with no luck. Downloaded, compiled/installed a newer version of e100...still no love. Wondering if it could somehow be related to the router we use at work (this is all being done on my lunchbreaks).
Could you go into mandrake control center (aka configure your computer), click on hardware, then hardrake and let me know what NIC you have and what driver it is using. This one is a pcg-fx340, not very different machine from yours from what i can tell, but celeron based with intel ether express pro/100 ve NIC. It worked at first then wouldn't anymore, even after a re-install. TIA.
Joe
I've done installs on 3 laptops (2 IBM, 1 Gateway) with that integrated card--it is very common. It works flawlessly on all 3 machines (2 run 9.2, one has 9.1). The driver is the "pro100", I think--the laptops are at work, so I can't check.
But, that card does work, so don't stop messin' with it yet!
e.
I have checked the output of dmesg at times. Usually it says something to the effect of either 1)
card is up at full duplex (followed by: card is down, and sometimes alternating between the two) when i use the eepro100 driver (IIRC)
or
2) The card is in promiscous mode, followed by, the card left promiscous mode (this occurs over and over, IIRC this is what dmesg shows when i use the e100 driver)
Don't know if this tells you anything usefull.
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