Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 01:14 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Carroll Grigsby wrote: >> >>>I've set up an old computer for various grandchildren to use. It has a >>>3com 3c905cx-txm pci card in it (and on to router and then to cable >>>modem... ). Been working fine until this morning when 10.1 reported that >>>it was unable to bring up eth0 at boot. Went into mcc and removed it, >>>hoping that harddrake would recognize it on a reboot. No soap. > > >>Moving the cables around should not have bothered anything, unless you >>managed to generate a large static charge that fried the board. I >>suspect that when you open up the case, and re-seat the card, it will >>probably start working again. What I have sean happen before is that the >>card was not firmly seated in the connector, and removing or plugging in >>the cable moved it enough that it is no longer making enough contact to >>function. (It was probably not making good contact before.) >> >>Believe it or not, Ethernet cards and routers are designed so that you >>can hotplug them. In a comercial setting, this is done all the time. You >>can not shut down a 24 port router just because you are changing one of >>the computers that is connected to it, or because someone needs to plug >>in their laptop. (PS/2 keyboards and mice are another story...) >> >>If you do end up replacing the card, the Realtek card should be fine. If >>I remember right, there are 2 different drivers for that chipset, so if >>you run into problems, let us know... >> >>8139cp >>8139too >> >>Mikkel > > > Mikkel: > Thanks for the quick response. It turned out that the problem was easily > fixed > by taking the NIC out and then putting it back, and a short visit to MMC to > configure the network card. Soon after, Will was happily surfing at > nickjr.com. One more source of stress removed from my world. > > I was pretty sure that network cables were hot pluggable, but not entirely > positive. I'll take your word for it that the cards are also hot pluggable; I > don't like poking around inside the case when it's live. > > -- cmg > You misunderstood part of that. The cards are NOT hotplugable, just the cables. As far as I know, the only PCI cards that are hotplugable are the CARDBUS cards for laptops.
Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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