Re: [opensuse] Re: router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (10.1)

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 02:46:36 pm Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Carlos F Lange wrote:
On Tue June 5 2007 07:33, Rainer Brinkmann wrote:
Perhaps the cable dropped down.

No cable problem. That is exactly what is killing me. The lights on the
router are on (also when I changed ports and cable) and when I reboot
into Windows the DHCP servers hands out the usual IP address
immediately. It is only in Linux, after it worked with this network
card for 2 days, that the problem happens. There is no error message on
the router, and the logs in /var/log only indicate that the network is
down and that the DHCP client is still waiting.

What else can I try?

CFL

Hi,

I once experienced the exact same problem. For the heart of it I could
not find out why it did not work in Linux while it worked in Windows and
did work in Linux, before. (it was a dlink-530, I believe).

What made it work in Linux:
1. Take out the board
2. Start Linux with no network card installed and delete anything that
might have been left over (I did that in yast)
3. Start Linux, once again and see, whether there REALLY is NO network
card detected and no remaining settings.
4. install the card physically, once again
5. Fire up Linux and let it autodetect the network card.

I cannot guarantee anything, but it did the trick for me.

If anything else fails I would install a different network card and see,
how this works. After all, network boards for desktop usage nowadays are
a commoditiy, more or less.

kind regards
Eberhard

The above is probably your best bet, especially if the card was setup in Linux
before Windows. If you set it up in Linux first, then in Windows, there is a
high chance that the NIC ROM got flashed with an update. This could have
come from the Windows installation software, Windows Update may have changed
something, or you may have flashed the card on you own accord. If the above
suggestion does not work, I would exchange that card for a known working card
from one of your other machines, and see if that works out. In general, I
would set up hardware in Windows first, if using a dual boot machine. That
way any changes that Windows makes to the hardware will occur before setting
up the same hardware in Linux.

- James W
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