Of Chad W. Skinner
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 2056
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Ethernet weirdness
Does anyone know if this situation would occur if the card was set to
auto-negotiate. It may not be able to start do to settings.
I am reaching here as I am not very familiar
Funky NIC? I would swap the cards to try and isolate the problem. If the
Aaargh. Now that you mention that, I bet you're right. I'll try that
at some point... being a hardware clutz I'm not up to it right now...
I just thought of a couple other things to try...
1. putting a hub between
usually the SIO errors happen when you try to do address/other config
stuff on an improperly initialized piece of hardware or if the actions
trying to be performed are illegal (including not possible)... could be a
bad NIC (mind you I didn't read the whole original post) or just a bad config
file
My bet is on the cards. I've seen this happen with a friend's setup like
this -
win98 -- crossover cable-- linux
The win98 box wouldn't boot without the linux box being up. I don't recall
about visa versa.
they were dead cheap nics, but don't recall the brand.
charles
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000,
Micah Yoder wrote:
Hi,
I have two RH6.2 boxes connected to each other by Ethernet, a crossover
cable. Both have 3Com 905 cards.
The names are eclipse and nova. The weird thing is that nova MUST come
up first, or they won't talk to each other.
If I boot eclipse when nova is not on,
