Ken Archer wrote:
>
> I have a dual-boot box with Mandrake 7.0 and 98Lite. Somehow I have
> lost the use of the 3C509 NIC in Linux. 98Lite still sees the card and
> connects to my cable modem fine. According to dmesg, Linux no longer
> sees the card on boot up, but does load the drivers.
>
> Most of my problems in Linux seem to be "operator error". What did I do
> wrong this time?
UMMM
by way of testing....
Try booting in windows then going to linux on a reboot and see
what happens with your cable modem.
There is some software supplied by Microsoft to ISPs which
ostensibly does "anti-spoofing" and actually checks your machine
with a query on port 139. Linux of course does not respond, so
you are marked as a "spoofer" and cut off.
Now if that is NOT the problem, try these things
# modprobe 3c509
# netstat -i eth0
# netstat -a -i eth0
another thing to do is to go to
Drakconf->linuxconf->Networking->Basic Host into->Adapters and
make sure the adapter listed for the 3c509 is ticked as "enabled"
I have experienced difficulties with the 509 falling off line. I
"fixed" it by changing hardware. AAAnd I later tested it in a
winbox--didn't work there either. Obviously your situation is
different.
Civileme
Civileme
