[ale] Another question

[Daniel Boyd]

I'll definitely check the patches out, but this behavior was apparent 
before the 3Com card went in (previously NE2000 clones, forgot to 
mention in my original post).

Dan

> 


> Daniel, 
> 
> there are patches for the network card to try.  It's on Donald becker's
> site  look at the boot messages - I think they point you there.
> 
> there is a mailng list linux-vortex and linux-vortex-bug that deal with
> these cards.
> 
> -Eric.
> 
> Daniel Boyd writes:
>  > Hello ALE,
>  > WARNING!! This is long....
>  > Have recently attempted to install a new web server on campus here.  
>  > It is a Pentium Pro 180 w/128MB RAM, four 4gig SCSI drives (two 
>  > initially setup in a RAID1 array, now abandoned), 3Com 3c590 PCI NIC, 
>  > RedHat 5.0 clean install (no updates loaded yet), Apache 1.2.5 
>  > compiled from source, SAMBA 1.9.18p3 (compiled from source), Netatalk 
>  > 1.4 (compiled from source), kernel 2.0.33 w/RAID145 patches and md 
>  > compiled into the kernel.  I have since removed the md driver from 
>  > the kernel, but have not removed the RAID145 patch from the source.  
>  > The mystery is this:  When I first boot the box networking is fine, 
>  > but after a ?random? amount of time all network (except Netatalk, 
>  > strangely) simply dies.  The box can't see the attached network and 
>  > nothing can see the box (no telnet, no web access, no ping response). 
>  > Any ideas?  I will be glad to give more info if needed...
>  > 
>  > Dan
>  >  
>  > Daniel Boyd, CNA              Voice: 706/236-1750
>  > Network Manager               Fax: 706/238-7858
>  > Computing and Technology      email: dboyd at berry.edu
>  > Berry College         "We are confronted with 
>  >                        insurmountable opportunities."
>  >                              -Walt Kelly
> 
Daniel Boyd, CNA              Voice: 706/236-1750
Network Manager               Fax: 706/238-7858
Computing and Technology      email: dboyd at berry.edu
Berry College         "We are confronted with 
                       insurmountable opportunities."
                             -Walt Kelly