>From this description, it could be almost anything. Why not give us a few
more details, though, and perhaps someone will be able to offer a concrete
suggestion. (My guess, BTW, is a flaky Ethernet card, but it's not a guess
I'd put money on at this point.)
1. In general terms, what does your system look like -- especially, what NIC
(Ethernet card)?
2. When you first boot and everything is okay, what does ifconfig report?
3. Right after you first encounter problems, what does ifconfig report?
4. After the system has been running for a little while, but well before it
shows any problems, what is the output of "more /proc/net/dev"?
5. Right after the problems begin, what is the output of "more /proc/net/dev"?
6. Right after the problems begin, what is the output of "more
/proc/interrupts"?
7. Do the logfiles (probably /var/log/messages, though Mandrake may be
different) report anything of interest?
At 12:11 AM 2/24/99 -0500, tom wrote:
>For some reason, usually after about three days, after instaling and
>configuring linux to use the internet via my schools network, the
>internet won't work any more. If I use telnet, it tells me that the
>host lookup failed and netscape can't find any server. When I boot
>up or shutdown, I see a message saying my eth0 "device or
>resource is busy". Looking at netcfg, it tells me that it is inactive
>and activating it returns a message that initializing it will be
>delayed. I've had to reinstal at least three times now.
>
>Today was a real kick in the pants as I added no new software and
>it died in hours. How do I fix this problem and secondly keep it
>from reoccuring in the future?
>
>Tom
>Using Mandrake 5.2
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