-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Ford wrote:
| I've got 2 rtl8139 cards in a Dachstein setup. I've got the pci and rtl8139 modules installed | and the cards are detected O.K. and shown up by lsmod to be in use. The eth0 card connected to my | cable modem works fine and is allocated an IP address by my ISP. I can also ping my ISP OK. | Although the internal card is detected and 'ip' shows it to be configured and up, no data | appears to flow through it and both lights stay off. I can't ping any internal addresses. | PS AX shows dhcpd to be running, but no IP address gets allocated to my other machine.http://email02.wanadoo.co.uk/webmail/en_GB/write.html# | Send | I've tried swapping the cards and slots, but always eth1 - the one furthest away from the | CPU never communicates with my other machine. The problem doesn't appear to be with the | machine on the internal network, as whether running Win XP or a Live Linux, it works fine | connected directly to my modem using dhcp. | | I'm pretty much at a loss as to where to look next! | | Ideas, anyone - please? I suspect your problem is at a low-level (ie: cabling or hub/switch). The lights on ethernet cards typically do *NOT* rely on *ANY* software to light up...they are directly driven by hardware. If you do not have a link light, pretty much nothing related to the network is going to work. It's also important to check the link lights on *BOTH* ends of the cable. If the link light is on at one end but not the other, you probably have a bad cable. If both link lights are off, the cable could still be bad, but you should also look for the wrong cable flavor (ie: straight-through / crossover), make sure you've got the right cables plugged in, make sure everything has power, etc. You don't mention if you're using a switch, hub, or directly connecting your (one?) internal machine to the firewall. If you're connecting machines together directly (ie: no switch or hub), you have to have a special crossover cable to make this work...standard network cables will *NOT* work to directly connect two machines. - -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDeyGFLywbqEHdNFwRArqkAJ4h2j4PIsfesVaKb34XYlac5ZWvYgCfRmDL V6iw/IcQThbZ2+L9BB/E8qA= =tuq8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
