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You're going to hate this, but I got to do it anyway, please see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.4 and then come back if you don't figure it out. There are alot of reasons why your card might not be working. How did you answer those questions on the installation? See the 1.4 HELP - It doesn't work! section of the howto. you might simply have loaded the wrong driver for you card.
I loaded the same drivers that worked two days ago....
It even posts a message saying that it passes self check. Wouldn't that suggest that I'm doing something right?
I compiled both types of intel pro drivers available into the kernel. I'm thinking that when cmos of the computer reset by accident (darn weak battery, can't leave the thing unplugged for more than an hour) and then I noticed some of my IRQ changed, but I didn't think anything of it.
I'm always ready for help, but I hate it when my hardware teases me.
I just realized something. I cannot reboot. When I type in reboot, the machine goes down, but stays in a half on-half off state, and does not proceed to post again. Warm reboot doesn't work. Ethernet dies when I reboot. If I shutdown it works. If I reboot, it doesn't. What's going on?
Sounds like 'your machine doesn't like you'. But really, something sounds flakey.
1. Make sure you have the latest bios on the board.
2. Was this the box with the bad battery?
3. Any brown outs or lightening storms lately?
4. It might be time for some basic system checks:
a. http://www.memtest86.com , run that and see what happens
b. boot with a basic linux boot disk and see if everything is ok, see http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/t...tart_here.html
5. If all that is ok, then you could still have a flakey P/S, but let's go on the assumption that your h/w is ok. In that case, reinstall your linux distro, but this time, take your time and read all the options, don't enable stuff you don't need. Oh, btw, make sure in your bios (if you have this option) that you have PnP turned 'OFF'. Linux will do that irq/dma stuff for you. I'll tell you what I did prior to installing my linux back in '94, I opened my case and wrote down all the chip ID's for sound, network, modem etc. I also cheated and wrote down what 'ms windows' was telling what the irq's/dma's were for all that. See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO/index.html for specifics. What you say, read all that you say, hogwash. Well, to really get good at this stuff, ya got to read read read. I had a buddy that used to load RH all the time, and all the time it was 'messed up'. One day, I looked at him installing it, I was amazed when I saw him select 'install everything'. There are things on those CDs that 'dont' like other things on the CDs. So, I made him actually read the installation docs and things got much better after that. He actually writes scripts now doing MRTG/RRDTool. Amazing.
6. I can only pass on to you, that I frequently get really mad at my computer when I mess up ALSA, or something doesn't work. But, you have to expect those things to happen when you are 'playing around' with the thing. Take it as a learning experience and that you will be that much better at it next time around. It's a confidence builder. This is not TV where everything works fine out of the box, that only happens in the movies.
Actually I have two boxes. One of them is radioclient1 (which now works fine now that I ditched the craptastic ESS 1868) which is an IBM 300GL. The other is a Compaq Deskpro EN.
I know very little about these computers, since I only obtained them for a few days of use.
I do know that I have disabled everything that I didn't need in the BIOS of the compaq machine. USB? Nope. Audio? Nope. Serial? Nope. Parallel? Nope.
There isn't an option for PnP OS.
When I installed slackware, I was sure to remove X, KDE, Gnome, TeX, emacs, X apps, and something else that I can't remember right now. Then I did a "full" installation. It took about 800MB, so it is nowhere near the amount of junk that RH installs. I have no GUI!
I turned off all optional daemons except SSH. Yes, I even killed sendmail.
I recompiled the kernel and removed all the [tons!] of crap that I didn't need. I completely removed audio, bluetooth, ieee 1394, parallel, scsi, raid, a lot of networking junk (like FDDI), and lots more.
It is identical to my IBM 300GL in kernel conf, except for proc type, NIC, sound, and IDE controller.
I just don't understand why the thing fails to reboot, and nukes the NIC every time I type in "reboot" and press enter.
"I know very little about these computers"
We know even less about them. Try those 2 links and get back with us.
Are you sure you have the latest BIOS from Compaq and I think they got a 'maintenance' partition on the HD, is it still there? Post that when you do the mem check and the boot disk.
Originally posted by kleptophobiac Well, the box passes memtest, and the card works under knoppix (who knows how reliably?)
The maintainence partition has been gone since its first hour in my basement.
There is a newer BIOS, but apparently it only fixes some hanging while in suspend mode. Should I even bother?
Let's see, "When I type in reboot, the machine goes down, but stays in a half on-half off state, and does not proceed to post again" , I think I would update the bios if you are comfortable doing that. Since the card works with knoppix, that tells me something isn't right with your install. Try not being so drastic on your install and then get back with us.
As far as 'who knows how reliably, those intel chips are rock solid. But you're the one who tested it, you tell me.
New bios didn't help.... however I did figure something out. If you pull the power plug and discharge the board, and then boot up again, it works fine. Go figure....
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