Re: Network card LED goes off on Booting
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 09:41, George Abraham wrote:
> Hello friends,
> I am trying to boot Knoppix on my brother's machine, and when I do so,
> the network LED goes off when the kernel starts probing for hardware.
> Knoppix boots and I configure networking ( IP is assigned etc ), but
> cannot ping any other machine on the network. The Ethernel card is
> detected during boot up. This card is working perfectly with Mandrake
> which is installed in the machine. Please help me how to rectify this
> problem and I want to understand why the network card LED goes off on
> booting and the machine cannot "talk" to other machines on the network.
> Thanks in advance.
>
I would compare the cards Knoppix and Mandrake detect (lspci) and
the drivers they both use (lsmod). Any differences? Version numbers?
Sincerely,
Jan.
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