On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 19:47, Ric Otte wrote: > I am running Debian 2.2.17 on my office machine connected to a university > network. When I'm in my office things work well, and I am connected well to > the outside world. When I leave the office and the machine is not being used, > it cannot be pinged from the outside world (it can be pinged when I'm using it > in my office). I thought this might be because the machine is going to sleep > when I'm gone (the screen does go blank), but I couldn't find any power saving > system turned on in the bios (I may not be looking in the right place, or know > what I'm looking for). I am now able to keep the machine accessible from > outside by running a javascript program that reloads a web page every couple > of minutes; this allows me to ping the machine at will. But I'd like to avoid > this, and would like to fix the problem.
Have you looked in the BIOS setup program. > I was wondering if it was in the ethernet card or driver. My > startup message reads: > > eth0: 3Com 3c900 Cyclone 10Mbps TPC at 0x1080, 00:50:04:0d:87:e1, IRQ 11 > 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. > MII transceiver found at address 24, status 182d. > Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. > > I was wondering if replacing that ethernet card with a linksys 10/100 > card (and tulip driver) would help; I have it lying on my desk. I doubt that would help. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "Whatever may be the moral ambiguities of the so-called | | demoratic nations and however serious may be their failure| | to conform perfectly to their democratic ideals, it is | | sheer moral perversity to equate the inconsistencies of a | | democratic civilization with the brutalities which modern | | tyrannical states practice." | | Reinhold Nieburhr, ca. 1940 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
