Scot L. Harris wrote: > 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. > Scott. I've deliberately held off replying as I wanted time to elapse whilst things were being checked out. > Could your ISP be timing out your connection? > It could well be so, the connection has been alive now for 8hrs28mins whilst the modem has been alive for 495hrs47mins. > Check if there are any keep alive options with the DSL modem. > In the 'connection setup' there is one specifically labelled 'keep alive' which I've changed from 10mins to 999999mins, so that should keep it going a fair while :))))) I'm hoping that the problems solved now, thanks for your help. Sharon. -- 14:57:27 up 5 days, 6:10, 1 user, load average: 1.56, 1.75, 1.74 A taste of linux http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/efever/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Fedora Core 3, KDE 3.4.0-0.0, OpenOffice 1.1.4 Registered Linux user 334501 Now accepting personal mail for gmail invites
