Joseph > After a long hussle, I gave up, downloaded and configured floppyfw and > got him to use that til I can set up a distro I know well and can > troubleshoot with ease (Redhat/Fedora or Slackware)
I like the slackware bit :-) Makes my adrenaline flow. Wire > Had been following this thread with mild interest mainly because I don't > use SuSe (RedHat/Fedora & Slackware fan) > > Over the weekend though, a friend of mine whose gateway runs SuSe 8.2 > run into trouble. His CPU failed (overheating too many times due to a > bad fan). He moved the Hard disk and one of the NICs (the other had been > onboard) to another machine. > > I failed to make 2 NICs work under SuSe! All were installed and > configured fine but the second card could fail to start. I changed cards > around in vain. I tested that both cards work fine as having only one > card (any of the two) worked beautifully ie. when you put in only 1 > card, it starts and works fine, remove it, put the other works fine, put > in both, only eth0 is started! > > After a long hussle, I gave up, downloaded and configured floppyfw and > got him to use that til I can set up a distro I know well and can > troubleshoot with ease (Redhat/Fedora or Slackware) > > Sometimes you have to work with what you know best if it's a critical > service you need to set up. If you have the resources to experiment > though, don't quit til you find a fix, I guess that's how most of us > learnt *nix. > > Joseph > > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:51, Lule George William wrote: >> > On Sunday 25 July 2004 04:06, Lule George William wrote: >> > > Hello guys, >> > > I didn't just let this thread die off. Just been doing alot of >> work >> on >> > > this machine and currently here is the update since my last >> posting. 1) Knocked off SuSE 9.1 and installed 8.0, just to C how >> it will behave. There was no change with 9.0. >> > > 2) Knocked off 8.0 and placed on Windoze 2K Server. Windoze >> behaved well!!! Could ping both the router and my internal >> network, >> > > perfectly!!! This practically ruled out hardware malfunction. >> > >> > Have you tried searching the web for another driver for your card(s) >> >> that >> > seem(s) to be acting up? >> >> >> Yes I did. Unfortunately, the driver they recommend for this card is >> the very one I already have. >> >> >> > >> > You could try an eXPloder driver with an NDIS Wrapper under SuSE >> 9.1. >> > >> > I'm not sure if I remember you posting this, but did you say you >> tried >> > installing another PCI NIC and that failed too? >> >> >> Yes I did and it too behaved the same way. If two different cards with >> different drivers behave the same way, would the eXPloder driver make >> a difference? >> >> >> >> > >> > Mark. >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------- >> > This service is hosted on the Infocom network >> > http://www.infocom.co.ug >> > >> > >> >> ************************************************************************ >> Lule George William (Mr) >> Network and Systems Administrator >> Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi >> P.O. Box 5498 Kampala >> Uganda >> >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> This service is hosted on the Infocom network >> http://www.infocom.co.ug >> > > > > --------------------------------------------- > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > http://www.infocom.co.ug -- "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." Bill Gates as Quoted by C|Net News.com --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
