[H-GEN] Onboard network cards

[Robert Brockway]

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On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Alex Delaforce wrote:

> The network doesn't connect. Eth 0 was failing but I increased the wait
> time for eth0 to 20 seconds. This seemed to help the first time but then
> changed from failing to backgrounding.

Hi Alex.  Could you post the output of /bin/dmesg following a boot.  In
particular the lines including eth0 and anything around them.

> Where should I be looking.  Should I forget the onboard NIC and get a
> PCI card instead? All help gratefully recieved

In principle it should operate the same, as long as they haven't used an
unsupported chipset, which is unlikely these days.

What happens if you type this command?

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.254.1 up

If this does not return an error then post the output of:

/sbin/ifconfig -a

and

cat /proc/interrupts.

This will give us a start.

Rob

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