Is this a 10MB or a 10/100MB card, and are you connected to a 10MB or
10/100MB switch or hub. It may be a negotiation or even a duplex
issue. I've had problem like you describe, although usually only with
fiber.
Anyway, that's all I can think of.
-- Rob
--On 09/20/00 11:44:30 AM -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey, I'm having a problem with my ethernet card under redhat. When I
> start up the ethernet card's active light won't come on, but if I
> wait a couple minutes, then initiate a ping on the machine, pull the
> ethernet cable out of the card and reinsert it a couple of times and
> wave a dead chicken over the box the ethernet card becomes active. I
> don't have any IO/IRQ conflicts that I can see, I've tried switching
> pci slots for the card and have even swapped out the card with a new
> one. Still no luck. I'm running redhat 6.0 on a ASUS P2L97-DS
> motherboard with dual p2-233 and a NetGear tuplip based ethernet
> card. I've used the same cards in another box with no problems so I
> know the driver works fine. Does anyone have any suggestions as to
> what might be wrong? The box is up all the time so more of an
> annoyance then anything, but I would like to get it fixed.
>
> -Ben Newman
>
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> -- Randy Goldstein
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