Re: RH v. 9 System shutting down NIC when not tx/rx data

chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:57:07 GMT

On 19 Oct 2004 20:05:55 +0200, Nils O. Selåsdal <NOS@Utel.no> wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:59:40 -0700, TheWanderer wrote:
>
>> The system seems to be turning off the NIC when it finishes sending or
>> receiving any data.
>>
>> When trying to connect to a web site I can see the router light to that RH
>> box blinking on and off slowly as though trying to establish a connection.
>> When it succeeds it starts to blink the usual way, very fast that is.
>>
>> If the connect fails it turns of completely.
>>
>> I have never seen anything like this before.
>Might be autonegotiate problems ?
>Try the mii-tool command, and force it to use
>a certain transmission mode.

If you force the duplex, don't force it to full without doing the same
at the router (if possible). Otherwise, you just guarantee a duplex
mismatch.

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