Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:19 AM Jeff Vian replied: > You have said that everything works, but mii-tool is > reporting no link. This sounds like the tool is getting the > wrong information, not like you > really have a problem. I was thinking that too. Possibly a driver issue, but then it occurred to me that it could be hardware as well. Not so much a bad NIC, but not fully supported. However, a flaky NIC is still a remote possibility. Bülent stated in another reply that he was running a SURECOM EP-320X-S card. Does anyone know of any issues with this device? The point of his problem is the inconsistancy. If this were occuring on one of my machines I certainly wouldn't let it ride. That's not an attitude consistant with building stable systems. Bülent, do you have another NIC you could put in this machine? Try to make it a different brand and model. And check the ethernet chipset each is using, it is quite concievable that you could get one from a different manufacturer that is based on the same chipset. If this is a compatibility issue, that won't tell us much. It would duplicate the problem with alternate hardware, but if we get that far, it would be better to duplicate it with another of the same card first and then use a different card based on the same chipset as a secondary verification of the compatibilty issue. When it comes to Problem Determination, I'm nothing if not thourough. :-) Eric Diamond eDiamond Networking & Security 303-246-9555 eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx
