linux box troubles

[Jeff]

I had a realtek card in mine when I first installed slack 8 (keep in mind I just got back into linux from a 2 year gap) and couldn't get it to work right.

I did get it to work after I recompiled a 2.4 kernel with realtek support, but ended up changing it for a 3com card because that's my card of choice.

If I were you, I'd start by putting up 2.4.x kernel

and go from there if that doesn't help.

At 03:38 PM 11/15/2001, you wrote:


>On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote:
>
>> I use slackware 8 with an AMD K6 II as a firewall/misc server and haven't had that problem..
>>
>> Is it a default slack install with the 2.2.19 kernel?
>
>Yes.
>
>> I updated mine to 2.4.14 yesterday going through the IP MASQ howto from the IP masq resource site and it got rid of several misc errors I was getting.
>>
>> You may want to do this just for shits.
>>
>> What eth card do you have?  what driver is it using? what does ifconfig tell you? Are you on COX using DHCP?
>
>rtl8139.  I'm not sure what driver it's using.  When I first installed
>linux, the cards were already installed.  During the installation they
>were detected.
>
>Here's what ifconfig says:
>
>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:96:02:0D:D0
>          inet addr:207.55.74.132  Bcast:207.55.74.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:308055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:233574 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>          RX bytes:311763283 (297.3 Mb)  TX bytes:26646443 (25.4 Mb)
>          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6100
>
>eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:96:02:3A:3B
>          inet addr:192.168.3.1  Bcast:192.168.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:35782 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:58030 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>          RX bytes:2508111 (2.3 Mb)  TX bytes:78433661 (74.8 Mb)
>          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6200
>
>lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
>          RX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:10667 (10.4 Kb)  TX bytes:10667 (10.4 Kb)
>
>
>> Sounds like a card problem to me....  but need more details.
>>
>> let me get this straight, after it acts up, you can still telnet into it but not ping?
>
>I can't get into it at all.  No ping, no telnet no http, nothing.
>
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Slackware 8.0
Linux 2.4.5