[H-GEN] FW: Onboard network cards

[Bruce Campbell]

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On Wed, 12 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. The network connects about 20% of
> the time, the rest of the time I get the error above.

The key lines that you want from dmesg are:

	Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.1.15
	Copyright (c) 2002 Intel Corporation
	PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:08.0
	e100: selftest failed
	e100: Failed to initialize, instance #0

Now, it looks like you have a dud ethernet interface on the motherboard,
but there are a few threads on linux-kernel about some of the newer
kernels having issues with PCI bridges which indicates that its a more
generalised problem.  The thread starting at
http://search.luky.org/linux-kernel.2003/msg02233.html has a patch for the
kernel, but since you're trying to install Linux, its probably not for
you.

I'd go for one of (as it may just be the kernel that you are trying to
install with, which is normally subtly different from the kernel you boot
with):

	a) Putting in a network card to install

or

	b) Putting the hard drive on another (working) machine and
	   installing there.

--==--
Bruce.


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