Re: ibm netvista hangs / freezes with rh80

2003-02-03 Thread Thierry ITTY
Special thanks to Ric Tibbetts FYI the intel e pro 100 driver that comes with redhat distro seems to be faulty instead of changing my nic, i downloaded a new version from intel's site i compiled it, changed modules.conf, restarted network everything runs fine now A 11:02 30/01/2003 -0500, vous a

Re: ibm netvista hangs / freezes with rh80

2003-01-30 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Hmmm... I answered this from my other address, but it doesn't seem to be showing up. So I'll try it again. I had this same problem with Netvistas. The problem (in my case) turned out to be the integrated NIC. Any traffic on it at all, would lock the box solid. I'd have to hit the power button

Re: ibm netvista hangs / freezes with rh80

2003-01-30 Thread Ric Tibbetts
I've had the same problem with netvistas. After pounding on it for a while, mine turned out to be network related. Seems that the integrated ethernet isn't too stable. Any network activity at all would freeze the box. My solution: Install an add-on ethernet card, and disable the onboard (or at le

ibm netvista hangs / freezes with rh80

2003-01-30 Thread Thierry ITTY
Hi I have an IBM netvista (model 6349) It works fine with windows nt I installed rh80 on it (all packages, out-of-the-box) It works fine for a while, then it hangs, the only cure is a power off/on I searched a lot, read various docs, found nothing I updated the bios to latest version, doesn't he