Re: Network problems

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:04, Cameron Murdoch wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:50, Scott Likens wrote:
> *snip*
> > First, do you use DHCP?
> 
> No, not on this laptop.
> 
> > What are you doing exactly when it looses 'net or 'ip?
> 
> Nothing specific that I can see.  Sometimes nothing, sometimes an nfs
> installworld, which was a bit dangerous seeing as the connection would
> drop every few mins/secs.
> 
> 
> > Is there any messages on the console or viewable via 'dmesg'?
> 
> None at all.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cam
> 

Have you tried to replace the network card with a different one to see
if you get the same results?

either the same type of card, or a different type?

It might be a weird bug in that card, or in the driver.