If I can't find a solution which let's me use the onboard NIC (and I can't believe there isn't one), I could throw the 3c900 back in. One thing I didn't like was that it became eth1 because the onboard NIC continued to show-up, even after disabling it in the BIOS. Still, I'm hoping someone has a solution which will let me use the onboard NIC. Anyone?
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:05:47 -0800, Mike Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Haan wrote: > | My experience here is approaching the ridiculous. I have an amd64 > | 3800+ riding an Epox 9NDA3+ mobo which has an nForce3 chipset and, > | among otheter things, an onboard NIC. Two weeks ago I decided to > | install gentoo from the 2004.3 universal cd. After three hours of > | trying to get the NIC to work, I came across an obscure little post > | which indicated I should boot "gentoo noapic" instead of just gentoo. > |>From what I recall, that did the trick and I went on to build what > | seemed to be a very fast and stable little system - until a few nights > | ago. For some reason, the NIC decided to just stop working. > | Eventually, I jacked an old 3c900 into the box and got that running. > | But then some other issues made me decide to do a fresh install and, > | while I'm at it, get the onboard NIC working again. However, the old > | "gentoo noapic" on the live cd is not working. ifconfig shows the NIC > | immediately after booting (but with the 192.168.0.xxx addr, not the > | 192.168.1.xxx addr that I need). All attempts at getting and address > | to be assigned via dhcp - fail. I can net-setup.ifconfig the card > | manually, but it doesn't matter because the card is just pretending - > | it doesn't *really* work. It can't ping anything except itself. Can > | someone please tell me: > | > | 1) What is the issue? What am I missing? > | 2) How do I fix it? > | 3) Why is this such a persistant issue, and when will it be fixed? > | > | Sorry to sound so frustrated, but it's not "just working". > > I really do not have an answer to your questions, but from my > experience with on-board ethernet controllers is that they are > really a piece of crap. Even if they do work (or at least to > seem so) you will find that connectivity is not reliable. I > always add a NIC card to every system and disable the on-board > NIC. I would suggest that you not purchase the cheapest NIC you > can find as you will have problems there. I have had good luck with > both 3Com and NetGear. > > Mike > - -- > Mike Noble > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Key ID: 0xFFDFC13B > Key fingerprint: 8204 1297 B9AD 0CED 2FCE 1FB0 9491 5824 FFDF C13B > Keyserver: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCH1rqlJFYJP/fwTsRArcnAJ4nDqkitfAi2T/ZmnMT8/yM7Vtk0ACfWRKw > FPtBSZUccEyGLWdzux+TOYM= > =tOZX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
