On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:41:51AM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I got up today morning just to find out that my network quit, the problem was
> most likely network card going bad over night, it went away after i changed
> the
> nic in my linux machine, but i would still like to get to the root of the
> problem.
>
> The card was 3c900/EtherLink XL PCI, i haven't had 3com quit on me yet before,
> so that's why all this looks so weird to me.
>
> First thing that i did i looked in ifconfig eth0, and this is what i got:
>
> RX packets:4937728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:5143912 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8672
> collisions:1 txqueuelen:100
>
> i noticed that the carrier is unusually high, normally it stays at 0 so i
> started looking for some kind of info on what it is, but i can't find anything
> in the docs or on the net, would someone please enlighten me about this ?:)
If you go to the 3com web-site you can down-load a diagnostic program that
fits on a floppy or two. You might try running it on the card. Just a
thought.
kent
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