On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 09:35, Sharon Kimble wrote: > At the moment I have the curious and annoying situation where my network card > appears to de-activate itself at random intervals, but usually overnight. Its > a realtek 8139 which is connected to my ADSL modem, a DSL-300T made by > D-link. I leave the network connection up and working when I go to bed, and > when I come down in the morning I have no network connection, and when I > check the network-configuration gui, it shows the status as being 'inactive'. > If I double-click the 'status in the gui it shows that 'activate device when > computer restarts' as being ticked, and I've also enabled the radio button of > 'Automatically obtain IP address settings with dhcp'. > > The modem shows that there has been no break in connection time, but does say > that there is no dhcp client available. > > Can anyone help me to sort out this problem please? > > Sharon. Could your ISP be timing out your connection? Check if there are any keep alive options with the DSL modem. You could also try pinging a site to keep activity going on the connection to see if that keeps the connection active. Check the log files as well to see if there is anything being logged. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Alea iacta est. [The die is cast] -- Gaius Julius Caesar
