Re: replacing a NIC
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:33:10 -0700
Marc Jackson <dechon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We had a 3com NIC go bad and replaced it with and Intel card.
>
> I'm noticing odd behavior. The kernel/NIC runs a self-test and
> says that it's up in 100 Full Duplex mode. [ This is good. ]
> I try to ping some sites to verify and I get 100% packet loss.
> I did ping to the broadcast address and machines on the
> LAN responded. [ This is good. ] Then I could ping www.cisco.com.
> [ This is very good. ] A day later, I can't get out to any machines
> on the LAN or on the internet. As a test, I went back and did a ping
> to the broadcast address. No other machines responded this time.
Which driver are you using for the Intel card? I have seen some Intel
cards that work great with the newer e100 driver and others (older ones,
specifically) that still prefer the eepro100 driver. You might try
switching drivers to see if it helps any.
HTH,
Jacob
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