No ping. Need help.
 

I have 2 computers with linux , and the second computer has a new installation (no desktop manager, etc) but it cannot seem to ping on my first machine. The kernel has via-rhine for the ethernet card compiled in the kernel.

ifconfig seems ok, the 2nd pc has this.
eth0:
inet addr:192.168.0.2
Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0

The first (working) has this:
/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0 seems right on 2nd pc.(cept for the ip, it's identical with the first pc)
and hosts file too
But everytime I attempt to ping my first pc I get this message.
Th first pc wont ping too but no such message will be produced.

Somethig I missed perhalps?

I never encountered this before, looks like somethng gone wrong? I know that the first PC has been setup correctly for it can ping, samba and internet share with another linux install and a windows install as well.

A quick Google search for "Transmit timed out, status 1003" gave this
http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kern.../Mar/5855.html

Maybe apic (ACPI?) could be the prob?

...The first thing I would try as root:

ifup eth0

Then if that don't work I'd look a little deeper; lsmod shows I have ONE 8139too (D-Link) loaded, but I have TWO nics:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.1.251 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:160436 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:156691 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:9469 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:108761120 (103.7 Mb) TX bytes:23513104 (22.4 Mb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.1.151 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5880 (5.7 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xf000

It is possible that if you boot without any firewall, you're 'ifdown' even though the drivers are loaded and your ifconfig shows tx/rx bytes. One of my dual nic boxes behave's this way. A nice feature if that's default RH9 network behavior...It forces manual ADMIN interaction in the event of a untimely reboot.

HTH

Actually if this is so, that would be a bit of a problem. And yes, my motherboard is an ECS L7VTA-L. Unfortunately, my distro requires acpi otherwise, a kernel panic will result (distro requirement really). My kernel version is 2.4.21-xfs, do you happen to know a kernel where this issue is fixed?

MrGreg, I will try your sugestion as well. But what confuses me is that when i do an ifconfig on the second machne, things like "inet addr", "Bcast" and "Mask" are still being displayed. Also, won't it have the same effect as having to enable it using the ifconfig command?

ifup didn't work. I get the same MII error. I also tried to compile the driver as a module, yet the same thing. :(

eth0
Looks like nothing is happening.

This one is solved. Kernel patch did it for me. Thanks for your replies.

Same Problem, eth0: transmit timed out
 

I was wondering which patch worked for you.?