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Re: weird eth0 problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Oct 29 16:38:54 1998

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:14:19 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Ivo van Steenbruggen wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I do a fresh installation of RedHat 5.1-intel the LAN configuration
> can autoprobe everything and after installation everything looks fine and
> works. Except when I shutdown my system a couple of hours... than I got
> one problem every time. My eth0 device has dissapeard and I couldn't get
> it back.
>
> I changed the PCI NE2000 card with an ISA NE2000 but that makes no
> difference. Replace all the PnP setting to manual and fill out hard io/irq
> adresses doesn't make also any difference.

To get my PCI NE2000 working I used the BIOS setting
"Non-PnP OS".   The bios then set up the card, linux found it,
and it has been fine since.  It was an AST computer, and it
is now in service as a firewall at an insurance agency.

>
>
> Anyone a solution or suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
> Ivo
>
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