[NCLUG] ds: no socket drivers loaded!

[Christopher C.J. Keist]

Swapped out the network card (lucky we had one that was the same) and 
now backup and running.

Thanks again for everyones input.

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 09:16  AM, John L. Bass wrote:

>> From: Christopher "C.J." Keist <cjay at engr.colostate.edu>
>>   Bus  1, device  10, function  0:
>>     Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] 
>> (rev 116).
>>       IRQ 5.
>>       Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10.
>>       I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc7f].
>>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffcfff80 [0xffcfffff].
>>
>> Tried both, very strange the card I can see turns itself on and off
>> continuely.
>
> yeah, there doesn't appear to be anything substantially wrong with the 
> card, since
> eth0 manages to send and recieve a significant number of packets, or at 
> least as
> indicated by the eth0 line.
>
> Since it's configured on IRQ 5, there is a good chance it's either a 
> hardware or
> software interrupt sharing problem. Check /proc/interrupts - and see if 
> a second
> driver is registered on that IRQ. If so, you will probably need to 
> figure out
> how to juggle IRQ assignments. Some combination of changes in the BIOS 
> PNP settings
> and manual assignments in linux as drivers load will be necessary. 
> Exactly how,
> depends a lot on the devices involved and installed on your system.
>
> The other posibilities are still cable/connector problem on the network 
> interface
> being flaky, and possibly something changing the default route, so do a 
> "route"
> command and double check that.
>
> Have some more fun!
> John
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