[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/11/2007 10:32:13 AM: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Simon, > I will check with him today to be sure, but I think the network card was > already in the machine when he loaded Ubuntu 7.10 - which I think was a > clean install. > > He has found that when the system refuses to connect to the internet (he > has ADSL) if he shuts it down and shifts the network card to a different > PCI slot, on reboot into Linux, the system will connect to the internet > the next time (sometimes the next two times) but then the next time will > refuse to connect and even refuses to recognise eth0. >
Hi Heracles, Is the network card seen in lspci? Have a look at /var/log/dmesg, any clues in there? What brand Network card is it? (perhaps posting the lspci -v for the nic may help). Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
