I am having trouble with the network going out on my IBM 560Z (300 MHz PII). I am running Debian 2.0.36, my eternet card is a 3Com is a 3C574-TX. I use the computer mainly in a docking port which provides 2 extra PCMCIA slots. The problem occurs whether the network card is physically in the laptop or in the docking station.
The symptom was originally that I would boot up in the morning and everything would work fine for about 2 hours. Then the network would go away. This is not a thermal problem, as it never happens under NT on this dual-boot machine. Unplugging and reinserting the card seemed to have mixed results. Often, it seems like the card manager is out to lunch, as I get no beeps upon unplugging and replugging. Sometimes after 5 minutes the network comes back, but it is very flaky thereafter. I thought I solved the problem the other day by adding the line: PCIC_OPTS="extra_sockets=1" to my pcmcia.conf file. This has improved things, apparently. I went for a day and a half after making this change before it failed again. Any ideas? Hope I'm not doing anything dumb, as I'm new to Linux (but not unix). Thanks in advance, Biff -- Dr. William A. Heindl CASS/UCSD-0424 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9500 Gilman Dr. phone: (858)534-8016 fax: (858)534-2294 La Jolla, CA 92093 www: http://mamacass.ucsd.edu:8080/people/wheindl.html
