am having a very annoying problem. My network connection only lasts a few minutes, and then it justs stops. I realize I may not be looking in the right places for the answer, so I would be glad to follow any suggestions or provide any additional info anyone might want.

I recently did a major upgrade on a lot of my hardware. I bought a new NForce 3 motherboards and a Athlon 64 3000+ cpu. I kept most everything else except for the ram. Since this is a NForce 3 board, and I didn't feel like patching the 2.4 kernels, I am running the 2.6 series. This same problem has come up in 2.6.1 and 2.6.2.

Neither of my onboard NICs are supported by a kernel module, so I have loaded in a PCI ethernet card. The first one was a netgear that needed the natsemi module. I added natsemi to my rc.conf and have dhcp enabled. (This just means arch modprobes the natsemi module and runds dhcpcd eth0.) It all boots up fine and connects just fine too. After a few minutes, the connection stops though. I threw in a realtek 8139 PCI card which uses a different module and I got the same results. I am sure the PCI cards are fine, they have been tested in another computer, and under windows in the same PC that linux won't work on.

I haven't been able to sync pacman for awhile because my connection keeps dying in the middle of downloading. Meaning a few of my packages are getting out of date in case there have been recent fixes for this I have not been able to find.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Are there any particular logs I should look at?

Thanks,

Isamoor