Hi!
OS: Red Hat Linux 8.0
Motherboard: ECS K7S5A
Network device: on-board SiS900
I have recently compiled the latest kernel (2.4.20) for my RH8 system. I load the SiS900 driver as a module, and it seems to work:
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk kernel: eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk kernel: eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk kernel: eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 11, 00:07:95:a8:9c:a2.
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk kernel: eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex
Then the trouble starts:
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk ifup: PING 213.112.117.1 (213.112.117.1) from 213.112.117.4 : 56(84) bytes of data.
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk ifup:
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk ifup: --- 213.112.117.1 ping statistics ---
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk ifup: 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% loss, time 2013ms
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk ifup: , pipe 3
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk ifup: failed.
Jan 20 05:43:08 hulk network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
If I restart the network dhclient requests an IP address from the DHCP server, but it doesn't receive an offer:
Jan 20 05:44:46 hulk dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Jan 20 05:44:51 hulk dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Jan 20 05:44:59 hulk dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
Jan 20 05:45:20 hulk dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Jan 20 05:45:35 hulk dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Jan 20 05:45:47 hulk dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Jan 20 05:45:47 hulk dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Jan 20 05:46:25 hulk dhclient: receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
If I boot the old kernel (2.4.18-14) the network starts but I lose the connection after a while. See my previous thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=41713
Regards