Re: network interrupted
Great! :)
Dave
> Disabling the the power saving in the bios and turning off apm and acpi
> during boot works!
>
> Next, I'll recompile the kernel the right ACPI settings.
>
> Thank you very much guys,
>
> Danny
>
> > > Do you have apm or acpi installed? This can be, depending on the
> > > computer, a constant source of trouble, as some features of the power
> > > saving modes are in the BIOS and for this often buggy...
> >
> > Yeah, I also think this looks rather like a power saving problem. It's
> > not just crippled NIC, but also the monitor. They seem turned off
> > because of that idle time period. You might want to try to fiddle with
> > your kernel's ACPI/APM settings or to update acpid daemon.
> >
> > Maybe just quick disabling of energy saving in BIOS and booting with
> > these parameters passed to lilo: "acpi=off apm=off" might indicate you
> > if the problem is related to that. If so, recompile your kernel with
> > different ACPI config - I've noticed there are some special options for
> > buggy BIOSes, etc.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > David :)
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