Ethernet card dies unexpectedly
Hi!
I'm having some trouble with my ethernet card (a PCI fast
ethernet RealTek 8139). Basically, this card sits in 0xe800, IRQ 11 and
is perfectly detected by the rt8139 driver. It is configured to work in
half duplex mode.
When the system boots up, it all works fine, it is
connected to our local network (10Mb Ethernet), and normal operation
starts. However, if I try to download a large file off the network, the
collisions LED in the hub starts flashing. When I had another computer
here with an ISA card, none of this happened.
Moreover, I have been experiencing problems with the downloaded
files: it turns out that sometimes the archives are corrupted. I have
downloaded Debian packages and have had probmes as they cannot be
decompressed.
In the end, and after a while of normal use (only as a client
for internet uses, such as e-mail, web, usenet, ftp and telnet; no fancy
networked filesystems or stuff like that), the network becomes invisible
to my machine. The ifconfig configuration stays there, with proper IP
address and all that. However, route and netstat seem to freeze up when
showing my gateway table. In the end, the default gateway never shows
up. The only way around this has been to reboot.
Does anyone know what could be going wrong here?
Thanks for your help,
José
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José L Gómez Dans PhD student
Radar & Communications Group
Department of Electronic Engineering
University of Sheffield UK
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