Re: Network card failing (FC3)

>From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Network card failing (FC3)
>Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:34:39 +0100
>
>On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 22:16 -0700, Daniel Vogel wrote:
> > 2.6.11-1.35_FC3smp
> >
> > After a long installation, we set up a server on wich we installed a
> > sw; one of the netword card starts getting disabled by it self.
> >
> > We think that it may be because the dhcpd.conf may be causing that,
> > but even turning service off it still doesn't work.
> >
> > We tryed the card outside and it works, so isn't a hardware failure,
> > and each time we set up the configuration for it, it only survive a
> > few seconds and keeps failing.
> >
> > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:2D:DB:47
> > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:21293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:1373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > RX bytes:1750818 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:196495 (191.8 KiB)
> > Interrupt:169 Base address:0x2400
> >
> >
> > ...no ip assigned, even after we did it....
> >
> > Aug 11 01:16:27 dhcp-mpt dhcpd: receive_packet failed on eth0: Network
> > is down
> > Aug 11 01:16:27 dhcp-mpt NetworkManager: SWITCH: old device no
> > longer good, but no better device was available
>
>Why are you running NetworkManager on a server? First thing I'd try is
>getting rid of that since it's aimed at laptops, where the network
>environment changes from time to time. It may be NetworkManager that is
>actually causing problems.
>
>Paul.
>
>--
>Paul Howarth paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx

The machine is supposed to work as an dhcp, with the program that is loaded on it, it doesn't matters the networkmanager then? or it's used by the dhcp? i still have to get ride of it?