Re: dropping network connection

2001-07-01 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:44:16PM -0400, Ian Marlier wrote: So I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts/ideas why this might have happened, and how I might go about fixing it... You'll need to know what needs fixing first. If you're unlucky, it is something like an endianness bug in a nic driver

Re: dropping network connection

2001-07-01 Thread Ian Marlier
Well, it turns out that it's a hardware bug with the auto-sensing ethernet port built into the motherboard used in the beige G3's. The ethernet controller polls the nearest hub/switch to find out whether the network is 10/T or 100/T. The hub responds, but the controller decides before getting

dropping network connection

2001-06-30 Thread Ian Marlier
I just finished installing Debian on a Mac PowerPC G3 (beige, 266 MhZ processor, 128 MB RAM right now, ethernet etc...). It's on a University network, and has a statiic IP address and a full-time connection. The kernel I built from the 2.2.9 source...I probably need to build a new one from