Originally posted on Linux - Newbie at 28 March 2005, 12:36 AM


Hello All.
When I Try to ping my modem (Thomson SpeedTouch 510 Ver 4 somthing) - I get no reply.
Network Card : 3Com EtherLink XL TPO 10Mb Ethernet NIC (3C900-TPO) - a.k. Boomerang
As the manual advised, The Configuration is :
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 :
# 3Com Corporation|3c900 10BaseT [Boomerang]
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=10.200.1.1
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
HWADDR=00:60:97:AA:07:EC

modules.conf uses 3c95x.o (recommended by HowTo)

and here it come...
when trying to restart network service :

[root@localhost root]# service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Setting network parameters: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register d0
Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 1(1) current 1(1)
Transmit list 00000000 vs. c73c3240.
0: @c73c3200 length 8000002a status 8000002a
1: @c73c3240 length 8000002a status 0000002a
2: @c73c3280 length 8000002a status 0000002a
3: @c73c32c0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
4: @c73c3300 length 8000002a status 0000002a
5: @c73c3340 length 8000002a status 0000002a
6: @c73c3380 length 8000002a status 0000002a
7: @c73c33c0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
8: @c73c3400 length 8000002a status 0000002a
9: @c73c3440 length 8000002a status 8000002a
10: @c73c3480 length 8000002a status 0000002a
11: @c73c34c0 length 8000002a status 0000002a
12: @c73c3500 length 8000002a status 0000002a
13: @c73c3540 length 8000002a status 0000002a
14: @c73c3580 length 8000002a status 0000002a
15: @c73c35c0 length 8000002a status 0000002a

[root@localhost root]#
(when I tried this action from X consul - no problem shown)

and finally - ifconfig -a :
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:AA:07:EC
inet addr:10.200.1.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:11 carrier:11
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6841 (6.6 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:362076 (353.5 Kb) TX bytes:362076 (353.5 Kb)



This is the fifth time that I installed the system - but this is not the problem.
Even tried to replace NIC slot.

My machine is dual bootable - with WIN 98.
and from there I wrote this message (surfing just fine)

almost forgot : uses RHEL 3, P3, 128 RAM
I'm about to give up.
Tnx.Originally posted on Linux - Newbie at 28 March 2005, 12:36 AM Originally posted on Linux - Newbie at 28 March 2005, 12:36 AM