Okay, how's this for weird:
I just got back from study abroad, and my server (Debian 3 on old hardware) had lost its network connection while I was out. I reboot, and watch the lights on the hub. They come on, show activity for less than a second, and then go out. Then they come back on, but only for a second. It keeps doing this.
The server hangs on "Configuring network interfaces, but continues after a couple of minutes. The system boots fine, except that I don't have a network connection, no DHCP address, and the lights on the hub keep going off every second or so.
If I leave the box long enough, the lights come on, and stay on, showing activity, but the console becomes completely unresponsive. Only a reboot gets it back.
By the way, there are other systems running fine on the same hub, and I have swapped cables and checked that everything is tightly in place inside the box.
I'm thinking it's a NIC problem, but I don't have another one lying around to test that. (And I've never installed a new NIC on Debian.)
Any ideas?
-jeremy
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