Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:18:14PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > Jordan Howarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > ALSO, if I remove the ethernet cable and put it back later I lose my
> > > connection
> > > entirely.
> >
> > To restart your network card the following is normaly enough:
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 down; rmmod <module>; insmod <module>; /etc/init.d/network;
> > ping <someone else>
>
>
> I have a suspicion it might be even simpler than this. Am I wrong I thinking
> that all you need to do is
> ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up
>
> ??
That won´t remove the module and thus the card wll not be
reconfigured. If autonegotiation is a problem reinitialising the
module will be the only sollution.
> For my part, I seem to be able to pull the ethernet cable in and out of my
> pcmcia card without losing the network. Perhaps I would have to leave the
> cable out for longer before the connection times out?
Do you have a 10/100 MBit card? And did you have any autosense
problems with it?. Probably not. Normaly it should be a problem, but
with some hardware and drivers it is.
> But I have another similar "problem" that is more annoying than anything
> else. If I put my laptop into sleep mode, then when I turn it back on I find
> I've lost the network, and I have to perform a
> /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
> to get it going again.
There is an option in the apm configuration or the pcmcia utils
nowadays that restarts the pcmcia after sleep mode automatically.
> Also, coming out of sleep mode, I find half the screen has gone out of sync,
> and I have to run xvidtune to get it straight again.
>
> Does anyone know if this means my system is configured inadequately, or if
> the restart and reset can be performed automatically upon resumption?
yep, see above.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
