welp, I am hopinh I have solved it by replacing the tlan card with a 3COM
3c590 card, and I built a new kernel, embedding the nic and scsi drivers, and
disabling everything I didn't think I needed... APM was one of them. Not
that I think this Pre-1996 Compaq system has APM, but I dislike APM
I was working on a customer's box today, and was seeing the same
behavior. FWIW, the box was an HP Vectra running RH-7.1. I ended up
determining that the problem was caused by some BIOS driven power
management which was apparently spinning down the drives, and cutting
power to just about everyth
John Hiemenz wrote:
[mondo snip-o]
> I just found an old 3com 3c59x card, I will try that I guess.
> I'm just sick
> and silly from trying to figure this out on the lack of any
> time I can spend
> doing it.
That was going to be my suggestion. Try a different NIC. Seems from what
you are d
I have a problem with my NIC losing 'connetivity' on my boxen.
The nic uses the 'tlan' module, and eth0 comes up fine at boot.
After a period of time that I haven't been able to determine, the networks
goes kaplop and I can't connect to or from this boxen anylonger.
I tried taking eth0 down a
