Hello, I decided to upgrade my PC a few month's ago and ended up purchasing an Asus A8V motherboard and a AMD 3200 Athlon64 CPU. It's been working just fine after some initial problems(just needed a bios upgrade) but yesterday decided to stop the built in network card from working. I cant think of anything i had changed to messup configurations or make it act any differently so im quite confused as to what the problem is. The onboard NIC uses the sk98lin kernel module and when i try to modprobe it i get the message that the card was not found. In WindowsXP(the 64bit beta) the card shows up but tells me the network cable is unpluged(its not and the cable works fine). So i decided to just get another NIC and got a cheap Realtech pci card, when i try to modprobe its driver i see a similar message telling me that it can't talk to the card, and in windows i get the message again that the network cable is unpluged.
Anyone have any ideas what my problem might be?
Thanks, Dennis Dryden
Anyone have any ideas what my problem might be?
Not really, but:
Try one of the many Linux Live CDs and see if that works (you have the benefit of a "clean" install for the duration of your tests. (I'm assuming that your tests have been on a dual-boot PC, rather than fresh installs?)
Mark Rogers, More Solutions Ltd
On Mar 30, 2005 5:38 PM, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
Anyone have any ideas what my problem might be?
Not really, but:
Try one of the many Linux Live CDs and see if that works (you have the benefit of a "clean" install for the duration of your tests. (I'm assuming that your tests have been on a dual-boot PC, rather than fresh installs?)
Mark Rogers, More Solutions Ltd
I got it sorted out in the end, after testing the cables(no problems), installing Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu and windows i still had no luck. The cable link lights were coming on on the hub and the network cards(hub even said there was traffic..?).
After all this i remembered i had changed some settings recently, id turned off the two SATA raid controllers as i wasn't using them and they were adding time to the boot up. After reseting the BIOS(just in case i had changed anything else) it started working again.
Thanks for the suggestions, Dennis Dryden
It's a very odd problem, I would seem to me more likely than anything that you have some issues with your cabling/hub/switch or you are using a crossover cable between two hosts (not all network cards like that)
But that said you would still be able to modprobe the driver even with cable issues.....very very odd
Tell me, do you get link lights at both ends (assuming your cards have then, I am seeing an annoying tendancy to omit them on cheaper devices) The media detection thing in Windows uses the same link carrier detection that lights up the link light so it would be really odd if you were getting the link lights but Windows still thought the cable was disconnected.
Can you de-activate the on board card in your BIOS ? does that make any difference to the PCI card you have bought ?
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:17:41 +0000 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com wrote:
The media detection thing in Windows uses the same link carrier detection that lights up the link light so it would be really odd if you were getting the link lights but Windows still thought the cable was disconnected.
I am pretty sure its built in to the hardware.
regards
Owen
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