On Monday 08 May 2006 19:44, Lonni J Friedman escreveu o seguinte: > On 5/8/06, Josenildo Marques <josenildo.marques@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Monday 08 May 2006 19:30, Lonni J Friedman escreveu o seguinte: > > > Try running: > > > ethtool -s eth0 duplex full > > > > The command was accepted. > > ok, so what does "ethtool eth0" show? # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: No Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 32 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: off Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) Link detected: yes > > > is BT causing the lockup immediately, or after some period of time? > > > > After some period of time... > > Why do you think that BT is causing the problem? It only happens after BT is fired up. I have left the system running for a long while and nothing went wrong. However, when BT is running, it seemed to take some ten minutes or so for the system to lock up. > > > > also, what kind of motherboard are you using? did you verify that > > > you're using the latest BIOS? > > > > The motherboard is Asus... > > I've never touched the BIOS thing...And I have never had this problem > > before. Thanks a lot. > > I'd suggest going to Asus's website, and looking for a newer BIOS. > check dmidecode output to figure out which BIOS version you have now. # dmidecode # dmidecode 2.7 SMBIOS 2.3 present. 49 structures occupying 1366 bytes. Table at 0x000F3660. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes. BIOS Information Vendor: Award Software, Inc. Version: ASUS A7S333 ACPI BIOS REVISION 1004 Release Date: 08/28/2002 Address: 0xF0000 Runtime Size: 64 kB ROM Size: 256 kB That would be a challenge :-) I've never done it before. Thanks a lot. -- Josenildo Marques usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 blog http://monomito.wordpress.com/ ************************************* "Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead." James Joyce *************************************