what kind of machine is it on? i had a similar problem on an old P100 IBM machine it wouldnt work with any PCI NIC for longer then 10-15 minutes, the network would die as well..my solution was to just use an ISA card.
you could also try upgrading the driver.. check NASA's site-- i forget the URL go to http://yahoo.aphroland.org and search for nasa i got a link to it. Even if you have the latest kernel chances are the NIC drivers are still very old. nate On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jos? Luis G?mez Dans wrote: j.l.go >Hi! j.l.go > I'm having some trouble with my ethernet card (a PCI fast j.l.go >ethernet RealTek 8139). Basically, this card sits in 0xe800, IRQ 11 and j.l.go >is perfectly detected by the rt8139 driver. It is configured to work in j.l.go >half duplex mode. j.l.go > j.l.go > When the system boots up, it all works fine, it is j.l.go >connected to our local network (10Mb Ethernet), and normal operation j.l.go >starts. However, if I try to download a large file off the network, the j.l.go >collisions LED in the hub starts flashing. When I had another computer j.l.go >here with an ISA card, none of this happened. j.l.go > j.l.go > Moreover, I have been experiencing problems with the downloaded j.l.go >files: it turns out that sometimes the archives are corrupted. I have j.l.go >downloaded Debian packages and have had probmes as they cannot be j.l.go >decompressed. j.l.go > j.l.go > In the end, and after a while of normal use (only as a client j.l.go >for internet uses, such as e-mail, web, usenet, ftp and telnet; no fancy j.l.go >networked filesystems or stuff like that), the network becomes invisible j.l.go >to my machine. The ifconfig configuration stays there, with proper IP j.l.go >address and all that. However, route and netstat seem to freeze up when j.l.go >showing my gateway table. In the end, the default gateway never shows j.l.go >up. The only way around this has been to reboot. j.l.go > j.l.go > Does anyone know what could be going wrong here? j.l.go > Thanks for your help, j.l.go > Jos? j.l.go > j.l.go >-- j.l.go >Jos? L G?mez Dans PhD student j.l.go > Radar & Communications Group j.l.go > Department of Electronic Engineering j.l.go > University of Sheffield UK j.l.go > j.l.go > j.l.go >-- j.l.go >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null j.l.go > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:28am up 153 days, 19:33, 1 user, load average: 1.65, 1.66, 1.59