On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 00:37, William Anderson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Jeff, > > I have been running FC2 with a wireless LAN card and encountered similar > trouble changing LANS before I figured out how the network profile > system works. > not using profiles, only one network config and that is a wired network. > Are you using a static IP address or are you using DHCP? Are you trying > to use both cards at the same time or one at a time? Are you able to > ping the laptop's IP address from another computer on the LAN? > static IP, never more than one card, no communication either way. > Is the link light on the LAN card is also lighting up? > yes > The first thing that I would check, if the routing table is OK when > unable to connect, is the net mask. If it is wrong, you may not actually > be on the same IP network that the other computers are on even though > you are connected to the same physical network wiring. > verified everything repeatedly, and sometimes it works but more often not. When it does connect it works for a short time then loses the communication although the link lights, and ifconfig show it is still active. > You might also try a different patch cable to connect the laptop to the > network port or switch. A defective cable can cause trouble. > tried the cable, as well as different ports on the switch. > Hopefully, this helps. > As I said, everything was working perfectly with RH9. Now it is intermittent at best (mostly not working). > William > > Jeff Vian wrote: > | I am having problems with networking on my laptop. > | > | FC2 on a Dell Inspiron 5000 with PC card ethernet. > | I have 2 different ethernet cards and the symptoms are the same with > | both. > | 3C562B/3C563B dual network/modem card > | 3C589D 10base2/10baseT card. > | > | On both the choice of network media depends on the dongle attached > | (10baseT or 10base2) > | > | I had no problems with the network interface when running redhat 9. > | > | With FC2 it sees the device and loads the 3c589_cs module (I do not > | remember which module was used with RH9) and properly configures it. I > | am able to start the network. It links to my switch as 10Mbit full > | duplex as indicated on the switch leds. > | > | Here is the weird part. > | Sometimes (intermittently) I am able to get out to other machines and > | other times I cannot. When I do successfully connect it usually after > | some period just stops communicating. > | > | I thought possibly it was an issue with speed/duplexing so I tried > | mii-tool to see what the parameters of the adapter were, but it tells me > | there are no mii interfaces available. In fact the error message with > | mii-tool is > | "SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported > | no MII interfaces found" > | > | "route -n" properly shows me the routing, both network and default. > | > |>From the laptop, ping to the adapter address works, ping to the default > | gateway does not. > |>From the other devices on my network everything works except pings to > | the laptop address. > | > | I am certain it is a "failure to communicate" between the pc card and > | the switch, but I am at a loss on how to proceed. > | > | My options seem to be: > | 1. get this (these) adapter(s) to work reliably (preferred) or > | 2. get a new adapter. > | > | Does anyone have suggestions on how to identify/fix the problem since > | mii-tool will not work for me? > | > | TIA > | Jeff > |
